Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!nayeri From: nayeri@cs.umass.edu (Farshad Nayeri) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Macs for compfortable A/UX programming Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 00:42:22 GMT Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: nayeri@cs.umass.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 34 We are thinking of updating our Macs in my office and I would like to hear your comments about the following questions: I think we are definitely going to try to get upgraded from IIx to IIfx, but the following is some other related questions: Has anyone used a 3 button mouse to use with MacX (and/or X11R4) under A/UX? How does it work, where do I get it, etc. I know that Apple Thought Police doesn't like 3-buttons, but it is a total pain to run X Windows with one button. Incidently, does MacX handle this (the one button mouse problem) any better than previous versions of X11R4? I remember hearing that A/UX running MacOS does not support more than one screen. Is this true? Also, can you run MacX (and/or X11R4) with more than one screen? How much memory should we get for running A/UX and MacX and have the mac comfortable enough for programming? Any other suggestions for turning our macs into a A/UX development environment? Our current configuration is: Mac IIx with 4/8 Meg memory, Apple 13" (I think) color monitor, Ethernet cable, A/UX 1.1 (we are getting the upgrade for 2.0 soon), X11R4 (MIT version). If someone has asked any of these questions recently, I would appreciate if you could forward the answers to me as well. Thank you. --farshad -- Farshad Nayeri Object Oriented Systems Group nayeri@cs.umass.edu Dept. of Computer and Information Science (413)545-0256 University of Massachusetts at Amherst