Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!paul
From: paul@unisoft.UUCP (n)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacOS and A/UX compatibility
Message-ID: <897@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 22:12:42 GMT
References: <3252@zodiac.UUCP>
Reply-To: paul@unisoft.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac
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In article <3252@zodiac.UUCP> pkahn@meridian.UUCP (Phil Kahn) writes:
>We will be receiving a MACII wit A/UX, and I have a few very important
>questions that I haven't been able to adequately get answered:
>
>1) Can A/UX run most MacOS compatible software? (From reading past
>   flames on A/UX, it seems to me that A/UX will not be able to run
>   most software which was written for MacOS. Is this due to Toolbox
>   problems in A/UX? What else?)
>2) Can a MACII configured for A/UX be run under MacOS? Two big
>   questions come up: (a) does the MMU chip cause problems for MacOS?,
>   and, (b) can files created un A/UX be accessed from MacOS (and vice
>   versa)? If either of these is a problem, then there seems to be no
>   way to simply run a program in one OS, then switch to the other OS
>   and use files. 
>3) How are device drivers handled for A/UX? Specifically, if I want to
>   hang an Optical WORM drive currently hooked to a SCSI port on a SUN,
>   what will A/UX require to drive the WORM drive?
>
>Please respond directly to me as well as the net (our recent move has
>temporarily muddled our netmail lines).
>
>Phil Kahn
>ARPA: pkahn@ads.arpa


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