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From: baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
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Subject: Re: Why not Mach as version 8.0
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Date: 20 Mar 90 14:16:44 GMT
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In article <1990Mar11.174227.19404@caen.engin.umich.edu>, billkatt@mondo (billkatt) writes:
>Look before you leap.  Haven't you heard of AU/X?  Well, AU/X 2.0 is
>great, and it will be coming back with a vengeance.  They licensed
>Unix from AT&T, NFS from SUN, and extensions from Berkeley.  Files
>are kept in AppleSingle format (very similar to MacBinary) and
>AppleDouble (similar to AUFS).  As for compatibility, I ran MS Word
>and Excel under AU/X, in 32-bit addressing mode.  These program were
>able to fully access unix files.

Just a brief comment, a bit off the topic:

Isn't it kind of sad that Mac users now use Microsoft applications
like Word and Excel as a measure of the compatibility of new operating
systems and hardware?  So basically we all consider Word and Excel to
play by the rules about as much as Flight Simulator on the PC does...

P.S.  It sounds like A/UX will finally be coming into its own with
2.0.  I'm looking forward to it.

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   cmcl2!esquire!baumgart       |                           - David Letterman