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From: skum@eng.umd.edu (Allon Stern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: MacLayers on Apollo...
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.171650.14368@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 17:16:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: eng.1991Jun28.171650.14368
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In article <6708@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jlhaferman@l_ecn09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
>I didn't post the original question, but I tried to get Maclayers running
>on an Apollo several months ago without any success.  Maclayers is a
>shareware (?) program that was available on comp.mac.binaries, and is
>a terminal emulator that allows multiple windows (shells) on your Mac.
>I got the Mac side of the application running, it is the server side which
>runs on the Apollo that I could not get running.  I don't remember the
>problems, but I know that for a couple of steps you need to be the
>superuser to get things going.  I contacted a couple of people back
>then, and their conclusion was that it would take a lot of work to get
>it running on an Apollo.  Sorry I don't remember any specifics.
>
>I'd be interested in hearing if anybody has got the thing going on
>an Apollo.
>
>
>Jeff Haferman                            internet: jlhaferman@icaen.uiowa.edu
>Department of Mechanical Engineering     DoD 0186  BMWMOA 44469  AMA 460140
>University of Iowa
>Iowa City IA  52242                                  '76 R90S

The documentation for maclayers says that it failed to install on
an Ibm RT running AIX 2.2.1 because of unsupported ioctls...
I'm sure that Domain_OS has enough unsupported almost-unix-but-not-quite
stuff to put AIX to shame.  :-)

anyway, MacLayers is nice, yeah, but I have doubts about getting
it running on an Apollo.  (I use mine on a Sun -- works just fine)

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