A/UX on new 030 notebooks?

Martin Ewing ewing-martin at cs.yale.edu
Fri Jun 21 13:34:59 AEST 1991


In article <54156 at apple.Apple.COM> blob at Apple.COM (Brian Bechtel) writes:
>liam at dcs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
>
>>Looking at the recent record of Apple CPUs, software and peripherals,
>>it seems that A/UX wasn't important enough to bother supporting it on
>>the existing Mac portable, or on the LC,
>
>A/UX requires a 68020 with PMMU or 68030.  The "existing Mac portable"
>uses a 68000, so it's unsupported.  The Macintosh LC uses a 68020 with
>no provision for a PMMU, so it's unsupported as well.  Importance has
>nothing to do with the decision as to which machines can run A/UX, in
>this case.
>
>--Brian Bechtel     blob at apple.com     "My opinion, not Apple's"

Then there's the question of disk.  Rumors I hear are that there is no
disk larger than 40 MB coming in the new portables.  I think that the
minimum useful A/UX disk will be >> max. popular MacOS disk for some
time to come.

-Martin Ewing, ewing at yale.edu



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