dwelly@saddle-lk.cs.UAlberta.CA (Andrew Dwelly) (06/07/91)
Request for information/opinions : I may shortly be starting a job to write some scientific software for a local company, and part of my brief is the selection of the Hardware/OS combination. A number of factors make Unix a good choice for the OS, and the company owns some Mac 2CI's (? I'm not terribly familiar with Mac model numbers). I managed to see a Mac SE/30 running AUX and was rather surprised at the very low speed of interaction. For example, there was a significant pause involved in opening the bin folder/directory (accompanied with a great deal of chattering from the drives). AUX does not seem to be used much locally and a number of my questions went unanswered. If anybody out there has either opinions or information on the following list I would apreciate hearing from them. How does the performance of AUX stack up against MacOs on the 2CI's ? How much disk space is "adequate" for AUX ? Can 3rd party disk drives be used ? Is it possible to run gcc, g++, gnu emacs under AUX ? Are any of the usual Unix (Open look, Motif, X....) GUI's available ? To what extent does Apple support AUX users ? Thanks in advance. Andy Dwelly -- ****************************************************************************** Andy Dwelly : dwelly@cs.ualberta.ca, Tel: 403-492-7591 !@#$%$#, %^&*%, - Listen, who swears ? Christopher Robin has fallen downstairs. ******************************************************************************
d88-jwa@byse.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) (06/07/91)
> dwelly@saddle-lk.cs.UAlberta.CA (Andrew Dwelly) writes:
I managed to see a Mac SE/30 running AUX and was rather surprised at the
very low speed of interaction. For example, there was a significant pause
involved in opening the bin folder/directory (accompanied with a great
That's a worst case - using the finder for Unix filesystems brings in a
lot of emulation - and the finder's not very good at large folders even
under Mac OS :-)
How does the performance of AUX stack up against MacOs on the 2CI's ?
Adequate. You get a lot of Unix for a slight performance loss in
the Mac OS side.
How much disk space is "adequate" for AUX ?
As much as you can get (as with any Unix)
If you do X windows and some developing, 300megs. I am busy filling 600.
Can 3rd party disk drives be used ?
Yes. Try APS, good drives at good prices. You'll have to partition
them with A/UX, though.
Is it possible to run gcc, g++, gnu emacs under AUX ?
Yes. Compiled anbd ready (and source) at wuarchive.wustl.edu
Are any of the usual Unix (Open look, Motif, X....) GUI's available ?
Open Look is Sun specific. Motif is based on X... Yes, X11R4 is
in the A/UX 2.01 distribution, with twm. tvtwm is compilable for
A/UX, and is needed on small screens :-)
To what extent does Apple support AUX users ?
I have had _excellent_ response from A/UX software engineering
(hi Kristin :-) and there's a month of tollfree telephone support
included with the package.
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Jon W{tte
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