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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Re: Future direction of A/UX?
Message-ID: <3387@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 26 May 89 22:50:35 GMT
References: <6408@oxtrap.UUCP> <4036@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> <7304@hoptoad.uucp> <30843@apple.Apple.COM> <7359@hoptoad.uucp> <19-May-89.180803@192.41.214.2> <2094@ccnysci.UUCP>
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In article <2094@ccnysci.UUCP> alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>2) When is the porting base going to be moved to SVR3? There are some very
>    significant problems with SVR2, in particular with serial line control
>    and modems. These problems are apparently fixed in R3.

There may be a lot of good reasons to switch from Vr2 to Vr3 (pardon me
if they escape me right now), but this isn't one of them.  If it wasn't
obvious, the low-level device drivers for the Mac II aren't provided by
AT&T, and anyway, anything not working in A/UX should be able to be fixed
without an upgrade to Vr3.  I would suspect that any problem with serial
lines is a peculiarity of the Unisoft/Apple implementation.

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Steve Dyer
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