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To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (11905)	4/20/1998 7:02:00 PM
From: phbolton	Respond to of 213177

Ed: You can get almost anything for Unix. Its usually not as fancy as the best, current desktop software. However, for "high end" uses like molecular dynamics, weather prediction etc the programs only exist for Unix. ps, there is something called MAE which allows you to run MacOS on a Unix box and there are also "softPC" type programs as well. none are very good but they do work. IBM Unix, AIX, comes with PC emulation built in but we've never bothered to try it out here.

To: Edward Boghosian who wrote (11905)	4/20/1998 8:06:00 PM
From: soup	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213177

>A very stupid question. If one has a UNIX OS, what kind of software can one get? Wouldn't you be very limited?< >>soup: The fastest currently shipping G3 beats low end Sun workstations for a couple of thousand less. With a UNIX-based OS due out this year, I think AAPL will have some products that some very adult "kids" will want.<< Edward; Without stretching my miniscule knowledge of UNIX, I think we can safely assume that persons considering the purchase of Sun workstations would consider buying Macs to the extent they're faster, cheaper and can run the same software. soup