Toolbox Doesn't Work With Viking I Monitor

[David Robbins]

In article <21713 at apple.Apple.COM> dwb at Apple.COM (David W. Berry) writes
(in response to my original posting and Phil Ronzone's followup):
> 	Would that it were only so.  Unfortunately, A/UX 1.0 requires the
> video card to have a special A/UX driver on it.  The only monitors that I
> know of that work are SuperMac and E-machines.  This restriction will be
> removed with 1.1 since it the Macintosh Mode video driver is used.

David Berry's observation is consistent with what I have seen and heard,
but it raises an interesting point:

   When he talks about monitors "that work" the term "work" must mean "work
   with the Toolbox."  As I said in my original posting, my Viking I monitor
   works absolutely perfectly with everything in A/UX *except the Toolbox*.
   What confuses me the most is the fact that the X Window System on A/UX
   trakcs the mouse with complete ease.  If X can use the mouse with my
   monitor, what on earth is so bizarre about the Toolbox that it requires
   a special driver?  It just plain blows my mind!

All in all, I give Apple credit for doing a good job with A/UX (even version
1.0 :-).  I am generally pleased with it, and look forward to 1.1 with its
more complete (I am hoping) Toolbox support.  But it surely does mystify me
how the Toolbox escaped into the market with such an apparently unnecessary
deficiency!

I conclude from the few responses I have received to my query that I have
absolutely no choice but to wait (patiently :-) for A/UX 1.1 to be
released before I can even begin to use Mac applications in A/UX.  The
obvious question is thus:

   When is A/UX 1.1 going to be released?  Seems like the last I heard it
   was due out before the end of 1988, but that leaves precious little
   time!

Oh well, ...


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