Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!malik From: malik@ut-emx.UUCP (Nadeem Malik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: general questions on AUX Message-ID: <22924@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 31 Dec 89 20:37:51 GMT References: <22885@ut-emx.UUCP> <1053@gort.cs.utexas.edu> <1989Dec30.230404.30326@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1055@gort.cs.utexas.edu> Reply-To: malik@emx.UUCP (Nadeem Malik) Distribution: na Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 44 In article <1055@gort.cs.utexas.edu> jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Levitt) writes: > I'm fairly certain that the UTexas computer store does not sell A/UX. >I think this is because they do not have the requisite support personnel >to satisfy Apple Inc.. Anyway, it is not on their price list. >The local Apple University rep. may be able to help. Call Apple. I learned this the hard way. They in fact were responsible for sending me off on a wild goose chase first to our computation center, as they thought its them who would sell it. After unsuccessfuly trying three people I learned that they have no business to sell such stuff. Back to our Micro Center-- this time they gave me a California number for Apple, where after holding on the line for 20 min (in the morning at the prime phone rates), I was told Apple does not sell AUX to non-dealers. When back to our micro center, the third time a more knowledgeable person finally tells me that yes none of the people they had asked me to contact can sell AUX to me. The response from some local Apple dealers was also similarly disappointing As you can imagine I had by that time mostly abandoned the idea of getting AUX. But thanks to everyone on the net I have now gotten some very useful info. > >>You can >>write programs under A/UX much as you can under MPW (or so I'm told--I'm >>not very familiar with MacOS system calls), and many MacOS programs can >>be run under A/UX. >> > They run under A/UX but without sound and without direct access to the serial >ports and some other bells and whistles. Only about 80% of the Mac >toolbox is available under A/UX. :-( Does anyone know if Microsoft word 4.0, Execl, and MacDraw work under AUX. Since these are the only MacOs programs that I use, if they do work then I wont even ever have to boot the MacOs. However, you have mentioned that there is a problem in accessing the serial ports. Does it mean that it will not be possible to print from Word to a laserwriter, even if it works otherwise under AUX? -- Nadeem Malik. SNAIL: ENS 312, Electrical and Computer Engin, U.T., Austin, Tx 78712 EMAIL: malik@emx.utexas.edu {uunet,harvard}!cs.utexas.edu!emx!malik VOICE: (512) 471-3903