Re: [MacPerl] BE OS and MacPerl

[D.Thomas@vthrc.uq.edu.au (Danny Thomas)]

pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) wrote
>At 10.48 98.01.30, Mark Manning/Muniz Eng. wrote:
>>I was at http://www.zdnet.com and saw that BE OS is being
>>given away for free.  Has anyone tried it and will it work
>>with MacPerl?
>
>Hrm?
>
>Be OS is a Unix(BSD)-based OS that runs perl natively.  I have no idea how
>one would begin to use MacPerl with it, unless it is in similar ways that
>one would use it with any Unix box.

The answer is correct in that you'd need a 'BePerl' because BeOS is a
completely separate operating system, although there are some partial MacOS
emulators available which run some Mac applications under BeOS. The idea is
that BeOS can run on many Mac models (not G3s), but you choose to boot
either BeOS or MacOS.

I don't think the BeOS development team would be happy with the description
of BeOS as UNIX-based (BSD unices for example do not provide
multi-processing, kernel threads, etc; these get added by derivatives).
AFAIK BeOS was written from scratch with design features to support
"pervasive threading". Apple's Rhapsody, aka OpenStep, is/was BSD-based, at
least in the layer on top of the Mach microkernel.

anyway back to MacPerl...

cheers,
Danny Thomas



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