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From: goldfarb@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Benjamin I. Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: A/UX on Mac : Need an overview
Summary: A/UX incompatibilities exposed.
Keywords: Mac A/UX
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.210009.26726@eola.cs.ucf.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 91 21:00:09 GMT
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What no one has said yet is that there are many incompatibilities with
various pieces of add-on hardware that work fine under MacOS but whose
manufacturers have not yet decided to support A/UX and maybe never will.
Some examples are the HP DeskWriter, The Irwin 5080 tape drive, the 
Orchid MacSprint II cache accelerator for Mac II, and the Ven-Tel 2400E internal
modem for Mac II. I have talked with the various manufacturers and found that
they basically don't want to put out the effort to write the necessary 
software.

Also, Adobe ATM doesn't work.

I'm beta-testing an ethernet card at present. There is no Mac II support 
for it.

Get the picture?

On the positive side, there is a large list of third-party products for A/UX
that is available by ftp from Apple.

The moral is, if you're starting out fresh and you're not planning to buy
any non-mainstream Apple stuff, A/UX MAY be ok for you.


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