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From: earleh@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX - when?
Summary: Get an RT.
Message-ID: <7994@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 27 Jan 88 05:40:46 GMT
References: <2421@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> <39806@sun.uucp> <2429@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <2429@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>, kaufman@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Marc Kaufman) writes:
> In article <39806@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
> ->This makes me wonder how real A/UX is, as a product.
...  ...   ...
> 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.

I have been told that A/UX "will not be ready until February."  No year was
specified.

If you "really" want a nice UNIX box, how about an IBM RT with 4.3 BSD?  I
don't have any idea how you would get one or what it would cost, since I just
program the things.  I do know, however, that it is a "real" product.

If you want to get a UNIX box and have it do something, get a tested product.
(It doesn't have to be IBM, just something which has been in use long enough
for all the major bugs to have been eliminated.)  It's like automobiles:
you're completely NUTS if you buy in the first model year.  That's why I
wouldn't consider purchasing A/UX until at least six months after the 
release date.

Of course, SOMEBODY has to test it.  If that somebody is you, let me know
how it works.

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*Earle R. Horton, H.B. 8000, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755   *
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