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From: liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Few simple A/UX questions
Message-ID: <2791@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Sep 90 11:17:39 GMT
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In <33817@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:

>Perhaps in the future you'll realize the benefit of ABI (Application Binary
>Interface) and the other goodies of a more-modern UNIX; I don't see those
>capabilities existing with an A/UX based on SVR2 and BSD4.2 circa 1983-1984.

I do understand the benefit, and I also recognise that A/UX has missed the
boat - unless the UNXI ABI for 680x0 includes the myriad different schemes
for getting syscall arguments into the kernel (if you don't already know
about this mess, consider pipe, read, semop and socketpair: yes - they
are ALL different).

>I simply wanted to run UNIX on some of the hardware I already have at hand.
>Is that so difficult to comprehend?  Or is there another vendor's UNIX also
>available for the Mac II platforms?

I understand that Mach is available for the Mac II.
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