Re: MAC-user-environment on UNIX

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Subject: Re: MAC-user-environment on UNIX
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Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 20:16:49 EST
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From: tektronix!hplabs!hpda!fortune![email protected]

I think the subject you brought out about unix and mac is a very intersting
one. Fortune systems has announced a product which allows file transfer
between the mac and the fortune over the applebus network.
Potential extensions to this product (in my opinion, no necessarily that
of my employer) could include:
1) letting the unix machine emulate a hard disk to the mac, eventually
allowing the mac to use parts of the unix file system.
2) allowing the mac to operate as a front end for a variety of existing
mature unix applications such as netnews, electronic mail, and accounting
programs. This would at least allow us to do away with the absurdity of using
vi for personal text editing. and would greatly reduce the load on the host
cpu for running these applications.
3) specialized shells, far more powerful than the schmidt shell now running on
the fortune could be used to make unix really friendly to use.
4) A connection with a unix machine could reduce the mac's weakness in
scientific programming.
5) personally I like the mac for editing and interpreting code and prefer
using unix for compilation and source code control

call Richard Tung at 415-593-9000 ex 2505 for info about ForTalk.
Good Luck
the views expressed above are not necessarily those of my employer.