Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!gatech!mcdchg!motmpl!ron From: ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Re: Future direction of A/UX? Summary: The big difference is UUGETTY. Keywords: SVR2 SVR3 uugetty Message-ID: <1239@motmpl.UUCP> Date: 27 May 89 21:22:28 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> <3387@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Reply-To: ron@motmpl.UUCP (Ron Widell) Organization: Motorola Semiconductor, Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 32 In article <3387@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes: -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. ----------^^^^^^------- Note this! - -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. - --- -Steve Dyer -dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer -dyer@arktouros.mit.edu Sorry, but IMHO, this is a very good reason for moving from Release 2 to Release 3. Prior to Release 3, you had to do some very kludgy hacking to get dial-in/dial-out on the same line. It was not pretty and is an administrative hassle. With the advent of uugetty on Release 3, it's a very simple task. Regards, -- Ron Widell, Field Applications Eng. |UUCP: {...}mcdchg!motmpl!ron Motorola Semiconductor Products, Inc., |Voice:(612)941-6800 9600 W. 76th St., Suite G | I'm from Silicon Tundra, Eden Prairie, Mn. 55344 -3718 | what could I know?