Two Questions

Jussi-Pekka Mantere jpm at sauna.cs.hut.fi
Sun Jan 29 01:42:53 AEST 1989


In article <15619 at mimsy.UUCP>, magorian at brillig (Dan Magorian) writes:
>The Only reason(s) that Apple currently is not supporting, or marketing
>A/UX 1.1 for the SE 030 is that there is NO Ethernet support (no NuBus) for
>the SE, as aux only ran on a II before the new release.

Well, Ethernet support doesn't really depend that much on NuBus. Already you
can hook any Mac with a SCSI port to Ethernet, and there are Ethernet cards
both for the SE and II. And now SE/30 is out, and so are the cards for the
Direct Slot. Once you have your SE/30 with A/UX you would just plug in the
verdor specific driver for your Ethernet card and start to NetWork. That's
all there is to it.

Or there should be.

Of course, A/UX would have to support the Direct Slot cards, and Apple
should have it's own Ethernet card for it (is there a one for the SE?).

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