Indeed...  Perhaps another Unix option would be MachTen by Tenon...   
I really don't know what the system requirements are , but it is also  
a 68K / PPC MacOS application Unix, not as robust as a traditional  
Unix, but full featured.  Might be an interesting try...  If I cared  
for Unix.  LOL

Derek

On Nov 25, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Scott Holder wrote:

>
> Derek Morton wrote:
>> Since the (real) Mac OS and all Mac OS applications run in the same
>> (supervisor) memory space, it doesn't seem like there would be any
>> need for the MMU except for VM...  That said, the lack of an MMU
>> would prevent the running any Unix OS as they all (to my knowledge)
>> require it.
>>
>> Derek
>
> The only UNIXy thing that works would be MacMinix, since it runs as an
> application in Mac OS rather than a standalone OS. It's pretty limited
> though, really only good for playing with something remotely UNIX-like
> and learning the basics of command line rather than getting anything
> real done.
>
> Scott
>


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