Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!think.com!yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!ewing-martin
From: ewing-martin@cs.yale.edu (Martin Ewing)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: A/UX on new 030 notebooks?
Keywords: portables AUX
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.033459.19375@cs.yale.edu>
Date: 21 Jun 91 03:34:59 GMT
References: <64631@bbn.BBN.COM> <3388@redstar.dcs.qmw.ac.uk> <54156@apple.Apple.COM>
Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News)
Organization: Yale Univ. Sci & Eng Comp Facility, New Haven CT 06520
Lines: 21
Originator: ewing@mora.CS.Yale.Edu
Nntp-Posting-Host: mora.zoo2.cs.yale.edu

In article <54156@apple.Apple.COM> blob@Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>liam@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>
>>Looking at the recent record of Apple CPUs, software and peripherals,
>>it seems that A/UX wasn't important enough to bother supporting it on
>>the existing Mac portable, or on the LC,
>
>A/UX requires a 68020 with PMMU or 68030.  The "existing Mac portable"
>uses a 68000, so it's unsupported.  The Macintosh LC uses a 68020 with
>no provision for a PMMU, so it's unsupported as well.  Importance has
>nothing to do with the decision as to which machines can run A/UX, in
>this case.
>
>--Brian Bechtel     blob@apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"

Then there's the question of disk.  Rumors I hear are that there is no
disk larger than 40 MB coming in the new portables.  I think that the
minimum useful A/UX disk will be >> max. popular MacOS disk for some
time to come.

-Martin Ewing, ewing@yale.edu