Subject: Re: Newbie Kind of Question
To: Paul Sander <paul@wakawaka.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/13/2000 10:48:42
An alternative might be to run MacOS under NetBSD - I believe
a group was working on a MacOS under Linux emulator, and that
would be a good base for a project (sorry I do not have the
link to hand).
David/absolute
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Paul Sander wrote:
> To my knowledge, NetBSD cannot be configured to run as an application under
> MacOS. However, there's a commercial implementation of Unix that does run
> as an application. It's called MachTen, from Tenon Systems of Santa Barbara,
> California. It's been a while since I've heard anything about the company,
> but a friend of mine has been very happy with the product for a lot of years.
>
> --- Forwarded mail from jason@compusmart.ab.ca
>
> I have installed NetBSD 1.4 for the 68k mac successfully on my LC 575, I
> have slowly been learning to use the new OS. My question would be I have
> a Quadra 950 and was wondering how hard it would be to set up a
> application in the mac OS environment that could run the netBSD kernel
> therefore letting me run a apache web server in netBSD in the background
> of the mac OS. If this could be set up I would then technically be able
> to control the Quadra using x-window by apple or who ever giving me the
> power of the mac os and the power of the netBSD os.
>
>
> Sorry about this question but I was just curious to know if it would be
> to difficult to have netBSD run as a program since it just makes calls to
> the hardware of the machine it runs on.
>
> --- End of forwarded message from jason@compusmart.ab.ca
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