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From: kaufman@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX - when?
Message-ID: <2429@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 88 21:25:34 GMT
References: <2421@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <39806@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu (Marc Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <39806@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
->This makes me wonder how real A/UX is, as a product.

-I would say it is more real than you might think. Apple doesn't talk about
-non-announced products. A/UX is still officially unannounced. Hence they
-don't talk about it. With all the furor about vaporware, this policy makes
-sense with me.

I believe A/UX is real... I am not as convinced about it being a PRODUCT.
This was a BIG customer.  Even IBM leaks hints when big bux are involved.

-I'd bet, however, based on my talking to  various folks who have poked their
-fingers at something that might be called A/UX sometime in the future, that
-it might well be announced sooner than you think, and once it is announced,
-it'll probably show up shelves faster than you'd be willing to believe.

Sort of like FullWrite Professional...

-... This
-is all idle speculation, you understand. I know nothing. Honest.

Right.

>Chuq "Fixed in 4.0" Von Rospach		chuq@sun.COM

Well, all is not lost, they will be looking at SUN workstations next.

I really want to see A/UX as a product.  I am trying to defer buying a
new Mac until it is out.  This is not the first 'announcement' that
has turned to vapor (how about the 68030 product Scully said would be
out the first part of '88, or was that '89).  I suspect that if I really
need UNIX I will have to go with SUN or (gag) a 386 system.

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Shasta.stanford.edu)