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From: bruceh@pnet06.cts.com (Bruce Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: A/UX polishing a @#$*
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Date: 6 Jul 88 00:02:10 GMT
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        It's been 5 or 6 months since Apple introduced A/UX.  And
so far the reaction to it has been pretty dead from their
tried and true... the independent 3rd party developer. As a
matter of fact, even their "Blue Chip" vendors are not
porting over.  As an A/UX user and a Mac developer of a few
years, I can understand why.  So far Apple has yet to
unleash the power of the Mac II's ROMs. Sure, a bunch of
stuff is implemented, and the rest is due "real soon now",
but still, I think A/UX has a long way to go before it has
people loosing their lunches in excitement over this thing.

        But let's look in the crystal ball for a moment.  The day
will come when Aplle will have Xwindows or NEWS or both up
on A/UX.  The real leverage of this system is that it may
one day allow some of the better software packages in the
industry to migrate to the workstation evironment. How?
well on that magic day when all of the Mac II's ROMs are
availabe to an A/UX compiler [either apple's c that is
supplied with A/UX or a 3rd party Pascal] and Developers are
able to compile original source code with little or no
modification, then watch out!  From that point calls to the
diffrent "look and feel" routines can be swapped out to UNIX
portable calls and a portable product can be created.  I
know that is sounds kind of far fetched, but it is what we
intend to do with our next product for the Mac II, the
development of which Kicks off next week.

        So, yes A/UX needs a lot of polish,  and a lot more in
the function department.  But HEY! it has the best UNIX
manuals of any I've ever seen!


        Bruce Henderson
        asm...
        [for you non MPW types, thats assembly commando]
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