Do you get sources with A/UX?

[William Roberts]

In article <2444 at udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> pez at vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Daniel J Pezely) writes:
>What exactly do you get and what is needed to run A/UX?  Do you get sources
>or just the executable versions?  Do you get an on-line manual or does that
>come with the $500 bound manuals or since the Mac II is not really a mutli-
>user system like a Vax, are there on-line manuals?

It is a normal binary release of a UNIX system. You get
executables, enough stuff to binary reconfigure your system
(though it will do it automatically when asked), an online
manual but not source thereof, and a printed manual (at least
we have a printed manual - it might have been extra).

>Is it too much of a pain to have A/UX and Mac/OS partitions on the same dirve
>and run each operating systems in different parts of the day?  Can you run
>them both at the same time?

You *HAVE* to have a disk with a MacOS partition bacuase you
can only boot A/UX via MacOS. This is a BIG IRRITATION (Apple
are you listening?) especially as the A/UX version I have
cannot do anything at all with files on the MacOS partition. If
anyone is interested we have some code that implements an NFS
server for the MacOS partition (read-only) so that you can
mount it onto A/UX and then discover that nothing will run
properly.

>How compatible is it with the Suns?

Depends on your Sun. It won't run Sun binaries and it is based
on SYs V so some of the include files are different, but
otherwise it is usually reasonably easy to get source code
across. The biggest culture shock is using initab and a huge
mess of nested startup scripts rather than the BSD-style
/etc/rc.* files

>I tried to ask some local dealers and Apple reps but no one has been able to
>answer these seemingly simple questions.  Hopefully, someone here can.

Yes, well... most Mac dealers sell "black box" computers with "black
box" applications and so a UNIX system takes a while to get
used to. A/UX seems to be a mystery to a lot
of Apple people as well, for that matter.

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