rembo@unisoft.UUCP (Tony Rems) (11/28/90)
Sender: Reply-To: rembo@unisoft.UUCP (Tony Rems) Followup-To: Distribution: comp.sys.mac.hardware Organization: UniSoft Corporation -- UNIX R Us. Keywords: A/UX, Mac LC, mmu, fp coprocessor Hello, A/UX fans. I'm interested in getting the new Mac LC, however I would like to run A/UX on it. I've heard rumors that someone might be coming out with a card with an an mmu and a floating point co-processor for the LC. Does anyone know anything about it? As for A/UX, pardon my ignorance of the A/UX since I haven't read this group previously, I'm under the impression that it's base kernel is SVR2 with mucho improvements. Do these include STREAMS support? That's about the extent of my interest in AT&T type improvements. I have a few questions about Berkeley enhancements. Does it include: 1) support for symlinks 2) socket support 3) reliable signals 4) job control (although that follows from #3). 5) ptys Also, I'd appreciate any comments people have on the socket implementation if the number 2 is a yes. Finally, I'd just appreciate general comments on the performance and the programming interface. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Please e-mail me replies unless they seem to be of general interest, although I will be reading this newsgroup now :-). Nothing like new ways to waste my time... Btw, I did notice one question people had about the Berkeley Fast File System. I have an online postscript copy of McKusick's paper on the subject if anyone would like a copy. Just send me mail and I'll fire it off. -Tony
kenney@hsi86.hsi.com (Brian Kenney) (11/30/90)
There is a fairly in-depth article about A/UX in the January issue of MacUser. It answers a lot of questions for people who are unfamiliar with A/UX. -- Brian Kenney kenney@hsi.com 3M Health Information Systems Wallingford, CT