lamarche@ireqs3.uucp (Louis Lamarche) (01/18/90)
I am using A/UX 1.1 since a few months now. I am reading this newsgroup
since the beginning and I have not seen to much discussions about the
subjects bellow.
- MacOs applications running under A/UX.
- X Window System under A/UX.
- NFS under A/UX.
So here are the conclusion from my personal experience on my macII equiped
with 8 MBytes of RAM and a 80 MByte Quantum hard disk and a 13" color monitor.
1) MacOs applications running under A/UX.
- I am able to run succesfully the following MacOs products.
o MacPaint 2.0 (Claris)
o Word 4.0 (Microsoft)
o Wingz 1.0 (Informix Software)
o Power Draw 2.0 (Computer Shoppe)
o Font/DA Mover 3.8 (Apple)
o ResEdit 1.2 (Apple)
*I have not tested other products.
*I have not tried to develop MacOs applications under A/UX.
- I did not found any significant performance degradation of these
programs under A/UX.
- The major problem I get is that for the moment, it is not possible
to use a French keyboard neither under A/UX Toolbox neither under
A/UX itself. Apple told me that this problem will be solved by
June 1990.
- For the moment I cannot print on our Laserwriter since I do not have
AppleTalk 2.0.
2) X Window System
- X Window server works fine. It is a little bit slow if you use colors.
It is however acceptable to run the available software.
- X Window comes with all that is needed to build client applications.
With small modification to Makefiles ( cc -DmacII ... ) I was able
to port some comp.sources.x programs. Among then:
o dclock (Dan Heller)
o xfish (or Xaquarium ported to X11R3 by Jonathan Roger Greenblatt)
o xfroot (Ed Kubaitis)
*I have not tried to port other programs
*I have not made the fixes to the Xt library has proposed by
Tony Cooper(Stanford University) on Sept 14.
3) NFS
- No major problem up to now with NFS (Sun). I always mount two Suns file
systems and a hp360 (Hewlett Packard) file systems under my macII
file system. I have no major problem using these machines as servers for
MacOs applications. I can store MacApps on those systems. I can open and
save MacOs documents on them.
- The only problem I get, is that about once a month my systems hang up during
the night.
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