phil@Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) (06/16/88)
We'd like to thank the large number of people that have responded and discussed with us some of the "futures" issues dealing with A/UX. We are doing something about it. From an article just posted to misc.jobs.offered: >The feedback we have gotten from the net and customers has caused us to >become a lot more aggressive in our project plans. We have lots of new >systems and peripherals to support under A/UX, so we want (of course) >experienced UNIX internalists, and we are really blazing away on the >seamless Macintosh look-and-feel under A/UX, so we want Mac OS programmers. We are hiring. Your feedback has been instrumental to causing the A/UX to accelerate our future product plans. Thanks to you all, and keep on talking to us. And b.t.w. - some of the recent discussions on setting up A/UX for networking caused me to sit down and really look at our manuals. While all the information is there, there is a LOT! It is hard to RTFM when there are 6000 pages, and worse, more than one manual marked "OPEN ME FIRST". But, I don't see what we can do about it. UNIX IS 6000+ pages of documentation. I don't see how that could be reduced, to say, 600. Or how that one relevant piece of info you need right now can be easily accessible. Are we missing something? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Philip K. Ronzone A/UX System Architect Apple Computer MS 27AJ 10500 N. DeAnza Blvd. Cupertino CA 95014 {amdahl,decwrl,sun,voder,nsc,mtxinu,dual,unisoft}!apple!phil "In A/UX Release 4.0, /bin will still be there ...." P. Zigbooli
dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) (06/17/88)
Phil Ronzone asks: >But, I don't see what we can do about it. UNIX IS 6000+ pages of >documentation. I don't see how that could be reduced, to say, 600. Or >how that one relevant piece of info you need right now can be easily >accessible. How about my old idea of firing the man pages into a Hypercard stack. Or putting your 6000 pages of docs into Hypercard. Put them on a CD-ROM along with the regular man pages and have Hypercard fixed so that it can be the ONE Mac OS application that runs while under A/UX. Or you might have it compiled to run under A/UX native (might be a little difficult if you don't have a Pascal compiler. >Are we missing something? Yup! Hypertext! and CD-ROM support under A/UX! -David Williams CCE User Interface Architect
benoni@ssc-vax.UUCP (Charles L Ditzel) (06/18/88)
in article <17280011@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>, dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) says: > Phil Ronzone asks: >>Are we missing something? > Yup! Hypertext! and CD-ROM support under A/UX! I agree...Sun has put the roadrunner (hmmm...sorry Sun 386i) into a nice hypertext online manual no reason why Apple can't....