Questions about AU/X

[David W. Berry]

In article <5093 at killer.DALLAS.TX.US> donn at killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Donn Fishbein) writes:
>I am looking seriously at the AU/X upgrade for my Mac II and would
>appreciate some information from current users:
>
>
>2) What is contained within the 6000 page $600 manuals that is not on-line?
>   Could an experienced UNIX person get by without them?
	It's the man pages that are on-line plus the equivalent of all
the extra Berkeley Manuals, plus the equivalent of all the extra System
V manuals, plus some A/UX stuff.  Makes a rather neat display on your
bookshelf and frequently even comes in handy.
>
>3) Are there any problems running Usenet under AU/X? What do you do about
>   serial ports beyond 2?
	I don't know of anybody that's tried to port news to A/UX.  I
also don't know of any reason it should be difficult.  News is already
known to work on SVR2 and that's what A/UX is.  If you are simply
referring to uucp, that set of stuff is all there already.
	Additional serial ports can be added with 4 port serial cards
from AST and SuperMac.
>
>4) Do any tape backup units other than Apple's work with AU/X?  Can you back
>   up the AU/X partition under MacOS?
	Currently, A/UX does not support any tape drives.  It's reasonable
to expect that that will change soon.  Tape drive support will probably
not extend to apple tape drives due to the wide variation in functionality
of SCSI tape drives.  The A/UX partitions can be backed up (image only,
not files) under MacOS by the software shipped with the tape drive.
>
>Many thanks..Please mail or post replies as you see fit.




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