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From: gregoire%stellablue@Sun.COM (Gregory Pearson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X-Windows price for A/UX
Message-ID: <50508@sun.uucp>
Date: 22 Apr 88 16:10:35 GMT
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In article <4466@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>jackie@Apple.COM (Hernan'Jackie' Macapanpan) wrote:
>>In my reply about X-Windows availability under A/UX, I had mentioned that it
>>would be available "in" the next release. X-windows under A/UX should be
>>available "at the time of" the next release of A/UX.
>
>At least A/UX comes with free Berkeley
>networking, though you have to configure it in (it's there taking up
>disk space, but as we discovered, our A/UX application programs can't
>use it until we teach all our customers how to reconfigure their
>kernels).
>
If A/UX can be praised (and should) for one thing, John, its the
ease with which the "vanilla" kernel can be reconfigured for either
Berkeley networking or NFS.  I have not found an easier configuration
program in the known world.

>Let's hope that the next A/UX release includes both X windows for free
>(since when was a Unix release free! :-) and Berkeley networking -- both
>ready to turn on and use.

Yes, both B-networking and NFS are bundled with A/UX - a good deal yes,
and a good deal more!