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From: elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: A/UX - when?
Message-ID: <6225@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 88 19:52:04 GMT
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Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science
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jk@apple.UUCP (John Kullmann) writes:
    One of the reasons A/UX is coming out late is the extensive QA it
    has undergone. Keep your IBM RT. Of all the UN*X systems I've seen
    or used or produced during the last 7 years, A/UX will, by far, be
    the most full featured and stable on the first release of any of them.
    
    The more people that follow Earle's advice, the better, as it just leaves
    more A/UX systems "..for the rest of us".

I'd like to offer confirmation of this from outside Apple.  I've used
a lot of UNIX ports on a lot of machines, and so far A/UX is the first
one I've seen that I would be willing to see go into a non-technical
market.  This includes SunOS, which is nice, but if a beta of A/UX was
as stable as version 3.mumble of SunOS, Apple's doing something right.

Not only has it impressed me as being an unusually solid and well
thought out port of UNIX, Apple is adding in a lot of added value as
well.  The A/UX toolbox is as nice a UNIX graphics environment as
you'll find on a UNIX box (and yes, X does run on it, if you need
RasterOp on wheels).  The system administration utilities, such as the
AppleShare-style user maintenance program, the Standalone Shell,
Eschatology, etc. are worth their weight in gold from what I've seen
(no arguments about how much software weighs, please :-)).

I do a lot of work with UNIX on a wide variety of machines, and given
a choice of what I wanted on my desk, I chose a Mac II running A/UX.
It's a very good way to do UNIX.

-- 
Clayton M. Elwell

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