J.Pearce@ucl-cs.UUCP (10/04/90)
From: J.Pearce@uk.ac.ucl.cs I am considering purchasing AUX 2.0 on CD-ROM and would appreciate any help with a few questions. 1. With an 80M hard disk, how much can be used directly off the CD-ROM, and how much space will left for user files ? 2. Will AUX work with a LWIISC or do you need a postscript printer ? 3. Is 4M RAM enough, or is 8M recommended ? 4. Is it worth getting the cache card for a IIci ? 5. I know the manuals for AUX are sold separately, but does AUX come with a documentation for installation. 6. Are any of the AUX manuals absolutely essential - the complete set is rather expensive. 7. Has anyone any experience of using g++ under AUX - I'd heard it can be a little slow and require a large amount of virtual memory. John R. Pearce jpearce@uk.ac.ucl.cs Computer Science Department University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT UK
johnston@Apple.COM (Ron Johnston) (10/04/90)
In article <1191@ucl-cs.UUCP> J.Pearce@ucl-cs.UUCP writes: >I am considering purchasing AUX 2.0 on CD-ROM and would appreciate >any help with a few questions. > >1. With an 80M hard disk, how much can be used directly off the > CD-ROM, and how much space will left for user files ? The entire A/UX 2.0 distribution leaves on the order of 13 MBytes for user files. If you leave some things on CD-ROM, or rmount them from an NFS server, you could regain quite a bit of space: man pages, the troff tools, etc. >2. Will AUX work with a LWIISC or do you need a postscript printer ? You need either an AppleTalk printer OR a direct-connect serial printer. >3. Is 4M RAM enough, or is 8M recommended ? 8M is definitely better than 4M, especially if you're using X. >4. Is it worth getting the cache card for a IIci ? The cache card makes an amazing difference in performance. Get it. >5. I know the manuals for AUX are sold separately, but does AUX > come with a documentation for installation. A/UX comes with an Accessory Kit, which includes 1) Installation Guide; 2) A/UX Essentials; 3) Setting Up Accounts and Peripherals; and 4) Road Map to the other optional documentation. This is enough documentation to get a typical end user going. >6. Are any of the AUX manuals absolutely essential - the complete > set is rather expensive. You COULD do OK without any other manuals, especially if you already have access to a BSD or a System V manual set. But, you'll find it easier going if you spring for the manuals. There are three optional sets: 1) User Kit - describes shells, editors, mail, uucp, troff, etc. 2) Programmer's Kit - describes C, assembler, linker, libraries, system calls, Mac Toolbox, SCCS, awk, lex, yacc, etc. Also includes man page hardcopy. 3) System Administrator's Kit - describes administration and maintenance stuff like user/group admin, backup/restore, adding peripherals, fsck, configuration tuning, and network, NFS, sendmail, YP, etc. /Ron Johnston - A/UX Engineering
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (10/04/90)
In article <45352@apple.Apple.COM> johnston@Apple.COM (Ron Johnston) writes: >>2. Will AUX work with a LWIISC or do you need a postscript printer ? > You need either an AppleTalk printer OR a direct-connect serial printer. According to the documentation, A/UX 2.0 does NOT support the LWIISC. Is the documentation wrong, Ron? -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett
barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) (10/04/90)
>>2. Will AUX work with a LWIISC or do you need a postscript printer ? > You need either an AppleTalk printer OR a direct-connect serial printer. I wrote: Is the documentation wrong? Someone pointed out to me that the LWIISC was a SCSI printer, and not an AppleTalk or Serial printer. Therefore the documentation is correct. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett
johnston@Apple.COM (Ron Johnston) (10/05/90)
In article <BARNETT.90Oct4085110@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: >In article <45352@apple.Apple.COM> johnston@Apple.COM (Ron Johnston) writes: > >>>2. Will AUX work with a LWIISC or do you need a postscript printer ? > >> You need either an AppleTalk printer OR a direct-connect serial printer. > >According to the documentation, A/UX 2.0 does NOT support the LWIISC. > >Is the documentation wrong, Ron? The documentation is right - A/UX 2.0 does NOT support the LaserWriter IISC. The "SC" stands for SCSI, and this particular printer doesn't work with A/UX. >-- >Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett