A/UX Release 2.0 (long)

[Chuq Von Rospach]

oberst at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Daniel J. Oberst) writes:

>There are some provisos: Only '32-bit clean' Mac applications are 
>guaranteed to work in the standard login environment. Apple has been 
>pushing vendors to make newer versions of their software 32-bit 
>compliant, but there is a 24-bit login environment that will allow 
>earlier versions of software to run.

I'm finding a lot of stuff works -- I use Word, Excel, Hypercard on a
regular basis. MPW doesn't work without the patch (that'll change officially
RSN). Aldus freehand seems to hang during initialization. MS-Mail (init/cdev
combination) 2.0 doesn't work.

It's almost amazing how well the compatibility works: Boomerang 2.0 works
under A/UX 2.0. INITs on Unix. (better. RANDOM INITs on unix, not just Apple
ones).

>All this flexibility comes at a price. Running a very early beta 
>release of the software on an 8 MB MacII, responsiveness was 
>sluggish at times.

I've been told this is because early kernels are full of debugging and
instrumentation. By release time, this'll all be stripped and it'll be
faster. 

>We will be 
>installing A/UX 2.0 on an early test version of the IIfx to see how 
>it performs on this machine.

Bwa-ha-ha. you'll like it.

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