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From: davoli@natinst.com (Russell Davoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Another NEED for 32bit ROM upgrade...
Message-ID: <22556@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 15:09:23 GMT
References: <233@hermix.UUCP>
Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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In article <233@hermix.UUCP>, lance@hermix.UUCP (Lance Ellinghouse) writes:
> >> There is an even LARGER need for us DEVELOPERS to be able to
> >> upgrade to 32Bit ROMs and here it is:
> >> 	WE CANNOT STATE OUR PRODUCTS ARE 32BIT CLEAN UNLESS WE TRY THEM!!!!
> 
> here is what someone at Apple sent me as a reply:
> >You can test them under A/UX 2.0.
> I know that we can run it under A/UX 2.0 for most programs....


Aside from the reasons you mentioned, buying A/UX just won't cut it for
driver developers.  As far as I know, MacOS drivers and UNIX drivers are
far different beasts...

--Russell Davoli (davoli@natinst.com)
  National Instruments Corp.