On Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:51:16 -0700 
 Will Larson <wlarson@fix.net> wrote:

 > Why is it not possible to keep the Mac side going while running NetBSD? 
 > I have seen other UN*X systems (like MacMiNT) that are able to do it.

I think the answer to that is "NetBSD is a Real Kernel".  It essentially 
grabs the hardware from MacOS, and does it's own thing... MacMiNT and 
MachTen actually run on top of MacOS (if I understand them right) and use 
MacOS's facilities for some things... (correct me if I'm wrong, please :-)

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