A lightweight environment resembling the UNIX? programming and user
interface. It is built on top of MacOS? and is therefore virtually
hardware independent within the Macintosh computer series, as device
drivers already existing are used. The current release is compiled for
PowerPC only, but there is no reason not to provide a 680x0 version
later.
Not much effort has been spent (yet?) to port all those useful
commands found on large scale UNIX systems like grep, sed, awk, cron,
..
The main emphasis was put on to make the system running with full
kernel support. Therefore, system call performance is not optimized.
The file system completely relies on the MacOS HFS and, therefore,
transferring data between Mac06 and MacOS is very easy.
Programs can be compiled using Symantec C++/THINK C. In this
environment, even the MacToolbox (dialogs, windows etc) can be used
within Mac06 executables. It is possible to start any Macintosh from
within the Mac06 system.
The overlay structure to MacOS has its drawbacks, of course. There is
no memory protection and processes are not preemptive.
DL #1 v. 0.6 compiled for PPC
DL #2 v. 0.95 with compiled application for PPC
DL #3 v. 0.99 with compiled application for 68k
