What are the differences between Professional MachTen and Power MachTen?
Both Professional MachTen and Power MachTen are complete UNIX operating systems with identical UNIX commands and utilities and identical UNIX communications that include an enhanced TCP protocol stack and UNIX file sharing and printer sharing. Professional MachTen is based on BSD 4.3 Berkeley UNIX; Power MachTen is based on BSD Berkeley 4.4. Both Professional MachTen and Power MachTen include an X server and an X client execution and development environment. Professional MachTen supports UNIX/Mach virtual memory. In other words, Professional MachTen completely takes over the memory management functions from MacOS to page both UNIX and Macintosh applications from memory to disk. Since MachTen’s paging algorithms are more sophisticated than those of MacOS, Professional MachTen’s VM gives improved performance under low memory conditions. In addition, Professional MachTen runs UNIX applications in protected memory space. Power MachTen, the native Power PC version of MachTen, has all the fe
