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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: AUX on the SE/30
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Date: 4 Apr 89 14:45:10 GMT
References: <7592@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <2099@pur-phy>
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In article <2099@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>In article <7592@thorin.cs.unc.edu> sunj@unc.cs.unc.edu (John Sun) writes:
>>I know that this topic has been discussed before but could some one
>>tell me if there is any reason why AUX could not run on the SE/30?
>>If there is none, then why is it not supported by Apple?
>
>I think someone said something about A/UX making assumptions about the
>minimum screen size.   If that's the only reason, I don't think there's
>any reason why they wouldn't change it.  Now, if there's any other reason,
>it'd be interesing to see what.

I think the problem was the availability of an ethernet card, but, I
may be wrong.  I think they said they'll wait untill one is available
and make sure it's compatible with A/UX before officially supporting
A/UX on the SE/30.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.