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From: newton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: A/UX comments
Message-ID: <5586@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 27 Feb 88 11:03:12 GMT
Reply-To: newton@cit-vax.UUCP (Mike Newton)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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While I generally agree on John Gilmore's comments I want to point out
one small correction -- under the 'term' emulator package that comes
w/ A/UX you can have far more than 4 vt100 windows.  However, note that
'term' is considered a demo program and is not supported.  I also find
it a little slow.

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I have been a beta tester for A/UX and sent them about 35 bug reports -- 
bugs that hopefully have been fixed in the 'release' version.  Because
of the lack of tape drive (even assuming I could afford it), I have been
running 'un-backed-up' for many months now.  (Floppies are far too painful).
This does NOT leave me with a good feeling!  I have system managed vaxen,
suns and IBM mainframes.  I believe in backups.

Disk i/o is SLOW.  My hope is that someday (especially since Apples share
of the PC market has doubled in the last half-year) someone will bring
out a new SCSI port on a NuBus slot  -- along w/ the necessary A/UX
software.  I dont know why Apple left the DMA interrup line unconnected,
but I think it is the stupidest thing that....

Anyway, despite these two problems, I really like haveing A/UX at home.
It has allowed me to get a lot more work done than I would have otherwise.

- mike

ps: John -- if you want someone to beta NeWS under A/uX, i'm interested!
ps: Coming soon -- the updated src/sysdep.c for Gnu Emacs 18.50 under A/UX.
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