Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!oxtrap!time From: time@oxtrap.oxtrap.UUCP (Tim Endres) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Fun with Dick and Jane Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 16:58:01 GMT References: <10936@polya.Stanford.EDU> <14726@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1280@hydra.gatech.EDU> <282@afsg.Apple.COM> Sender: time@oxtrap.uucp (Tim Endres) Reply-To: time@oxtrap.UUCP Organization: Oxtrap - Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 39 In-reply-to: ron@afsg.Apple.COM's message of 30 Jul 89 14:00:52 GMT In article <282@afsg.Apple.COM> ron@afsg.Apple.COM (Ron Flax) writes: You people are all complaining about problems with A/UX 1.0, all of these things are fixed in 1.1. Furthermore 1.0 was primarily designed to be a first cut/developer release of A/UX to get a feel for what people would want in a UNIX product from Apple. We've listened to the problems and have made the appropriate changes in 1.1. On the subject of getting 1.1, my understanding is that if you have subscribed to the Update Service, you should have been updated, otherwise you probably havn't. I must agree. I had 1.0, and while I had trouble getting my upgrade (late), I must say that 1.1 was worth the wait! I must also praise Apple for the packaging of the 1.1 update. Most companies would force me to buy their very undesirable tape drive to do the upgrade, but Apple managed to provide me with a floppy solution. One, in fact, that is simple, and well packaged. And, although I had to call someone at Apple to sort out the delay, I received my update UPS in two days! Thank you, Doug Radcliffe. Further, with release 1.1, I am doing development for a large system that runs across Sequent Symmetry, Sun, Dec3100, workstations on a network distributed across New York and Chicago. The combination of System V shared memory and semaphore models with BSD sockets allows me to completely develop this system at home on my Mac! And, to top it off, I can run MacDrawII, HyperCard, Word 4.0 (I hope), and many others, while my massive makes go on in the background! Apple, could you please provide us with a terminal DA?!?!?!?! I am desperate to start background work while I am in HyperCard! I have tried many hacks, but I can't pull it off. Again, Thanks Apple. I never thought you'd give me Unix. I never thought it would be so well integrated. For a product that is certainly not your bread and butter, you've done a lot!