12 Aug
2007
12 Aug
'07
10:53 a.m.
On Aug 11, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
While Mac OS X has a UNIX layer under the hood, the
GUI is where it
is less than compatible. While X-Windows is available, and so can
run UNIX GUI applications, most Mac users don't even have it
installed.
That amazes me...at any one time I've got a half dozen X windows
open. I guess not everyone who has a Mac uses it as a "high-end UNIX
workstation", though pretty much everyone I know does.
OS X has been my primary desktop platform for about five years
now. Before that, I've always had a modern (i.e., not x86...DEC,
Sun, then SGI) UNIX workstation on my desk since X10R4 (yes X TEN
release four) was current. OS X (with X11) was easily good enough
*as a UNIX workstation* to replace my IRIX machine.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007