A/UX on new 030 notebooks?

Brian Bechtel blob at Apple.COM
Thu Jun 20 01:21:09 AEST 1991


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"



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