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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX Release 2.0
Keywords: A/UX
Message-ID: <1990Mar20.181959.16435@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 20 Mar 90 18:19:59 GMT
References: <16611@well.sf.ca.us> <729@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <306@digigw.lab.digital.co.jp> <7264@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.unix.aux, article <7264@goofy.Apple.COM>,
  dwb@archer.apple.com (David W. Berry) writes:
< 	Nope.  It's SVR2, plus berkeley enhancements.  The enhancements
< 	include almost anything you'd want.  I've ported a wide variety
< 	of programs specifically designed to BSD and had no problems.
< 
Why not SVR4?

Does the A/UX kernel finally support the Berkeley FFS, and/or the
#!/usr/bin/whatever convention? Or ar these still the "almost" in the above
"almost anything"?
The above are, to me at least, the two most annoying non-features A/UX has.

Oh yes, I'd also like to have TIOCCONS instead of /dev/osm, please.
(Ever had "tail -f /dev/osm" cause a kernel bus error?)
<
<>What are the mechanics of launching a Finder app from the A/UX side?
< 	Double click on it, or type it's name on the command line.
Obvious once you're told, I suppose...

Is there a decent Mac-like text editor? Or the functional equivalent to the
MPW Shell? (Long list of superb MPW shell features, sadly missing from Unix,
omitted.)
I suppose you'd need a virtual file system (or something) to handle the
.<paragraph> current-selection feature.

< 
<>I plan on running a number of IIci's with X on A/UX together with Sun 4/80s so
<>I would like to mount the A/UX /usr on a Sun server.  Will the A/UX side be
<>happy with this?
< 	Sure, we do several similar things here.

But can you run the Sun binaries on A/UX, and/or vice versa?
(The answer is a very obvious "no", right?)

NB: Sorry if this sounds like more or less unnecessary bickering about a good
product. It is (good, I mean), but it could be better. What couldn't?
-- 
Matthias Urlichs