Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!rsarin From: rsarin@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Raman K. Sarin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: A/UX and System 7.0 Keywords: System 7.0 Update Message-ID: Date: 2 Mar 91 23:40:34 GMT References: <1991Mar01.213402.10109@chinet.chi.il.us> <49811@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu In article <49811@apple.Apple.COM> ksand@Apple.COM (Kent Sandvik) writes: >In article <1991Mar01.213402.10109@chinet.chi.il.us> henry@chinet.chi.il.us (Henry C. Schmitt) writes: >>As there hasn't been a System Software update out since I picked up >>A/UX (well, 6.0.7 but it was mostly bug fixes), I was wondering about >>A/UX and System 7.0. Do I need a special version of Sys 7 for A/UX, >>if so, is it/will it be part of the A/UX 2.0.1 update? Can I just use >>Installer to put it into the appropriate System Folders? Enquiring >>minds want to know! > >MacOX emulation is provided by a layer that resides between the >Macintosh application and the toolbox ROM and the A/UX kernel. Any >new functionaly, like System 7, has to be taken into consideration in >this layer - it does not help to just install a new MacOS system on >top of A/UX. A/UX 2.0.1 does not have any System 7 features, because >System 7 is not even officially released yet. > In other words Kent, you can't tell us anything about system 7 and A/UX which probably means that it's going to be a major pain to upgrade to 7 if you are running AUX judging by Apple previous record. Anyway, I've seen the system 7 beta release (having worked at a company that had good reason to have it) and it's really very sharp, I must say, but while installing it I didn't notice anything mentioning AUX, but then again I wasn't really paying much attention to the system. Somebody mentioned the MACH10 OS for the Mac, and the number is 1-800-6-MACH-10, and the add does depict a Mac Classic running the software. I've asked for an informational package, but it's not here yet, if anyone knows anything about this I'd appreciate an answer. And now my question: In a previous article it's mentioned that inserting a line like "TBMEMORY=10M" in your .login will allow the Mac shell to run with 10M of virtual memory, where do you put this line? I have it in my personal .login, and in the one at the root level but neither seems to do the trick, Also I did read the manpage for Login, and couldn't see any references to this variable there at all? Any help please? -Raman Sarin