newton@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Mike Newton) (02/27/88)
While I generally agree on John Gilmore's comments I want to point out
one small correction -- under the 'term' emulator package that comes
w/ A/UX you can have far more than 4 vt100 windows. However, note that
'term' is considered a demo program and is not supported. I also find
it a little slow.
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I have been a beta tester for A/UX and sent them about 35 bug reports --
bugs that hopefully have been fixed in the 'release' version. Because
of the lack of tape drive (even assuming I could afford it), I have been
running 'un-backed-up' for many months now. (Floppies are far too painful).
This does NOT leave me with a good feeling! I have system managed vaxen,
suns and IBM mainframes. I believe in backups.
Disk i/o is SLOW. My hope is that someday (especially since Apples share
of the PC market has doubled in the last half-year) someone will bring
out a new SCSI port on a NuBus slot -- along w/ the necessary A/UX
software. I dont know why Apple left the DMA interrup line unconnected,
but I think it is the stupidest thing that....
Anyway, despite these two problems, I really like haveing A/UX at home.
It has allowed me to get a lot more work done than I would have otherwise.
- mike
ps: John -- if you want someone to beta NeWS under A/uX, i'm interested!
ps: Coming soon -- the updated src/sysdep.c for Gnu Emacs 18.50 under A/UX.
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