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It can run some. The Finder is basically System 7.0, with all that implies. Some CDEVs and INITs will work in it, and some others will not only not work but (fr
by classichasclass 8y ago
It can run some. The Finder is basically System 7.0, with all that implies. Some CDEVs and INITs will work in it, and some others will not only not work but (from personal experience) make it impossible to bring up the Mac side. Some Mac apps will balk at what's missing from the OS or are used to playing fast and loose in ways A/UX will prohibit.
That said, it is remarkable how the two sides work together. It's not a perfect union because X apps still have to come up in a dedicated X server which runs on the Mac side, so even graphical apps don't come together seamlessly. But even within its limitations it presents a compelling illusion of a unified whole and Commando is a great way to discover command line options.
- Taniwha 8y agomost of the really bad issues were things that were broken in OS7 running VM too - mostly it was people messing with the upper 8 bits of pointers directly rathyer than using the standard handle APIs, but expecting to be able to write directly to hardware devices or 'knowing' about undocumented stuff inside the ROMs was also an issue