Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!ncar!umigw!umbio!ibiza!aem From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: General Overview of Mac & A/UX Capabilities Message-ID: <1541@umbio.MIAMI.EDU> Date: 31 Mar 89 03:06:17 GMT References: <3202@nunki.usc.edu> <1089@internal.Apple.COM> Sender: netnews@umbio.MIAMI.EDU Reply-To: aem@Mthvax.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg) Organization: University of Miami Hertz Lab, Coral Gables, FL Lines: 19 >In article <3202@nunki.usc.edu> malczews@nunki.usc.edu (Frank Malczewski) writes: >>How reliable is it (i.e., how compatible is it with other unix-based software)? In <1089@internal.Apple.COM>, wrote: > This seems to be two questions. Release 1.1 is fairly reliable. > Uptime tells me 7 days. Other machines have been up as long as > long as 39-50 days. As far as compatiblity goes, we've ported > a lot of berkeley and system v based code both with relatively > little effort. I've had 1.0 up on some machines >50 days and only brought it down because of UPS maintenance. 1.1beta I've had up 20+ days, 'til a professor thought he'd like to run Macwrite... aem a.e.mossberg - aem@mthvax.miami.edu - aem@miavax.SPAN - aem@umiami.BITNET The New York Times - "the most untrustworthy newspaper in the United States" - President Eisenhower