Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!apple!dwb From: dwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Can A/UX handle multiple terminal access for users? Keywords: A/UX multiuser terminals Message-ID: <15610@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 15 Aug 88 21:36:45 GMT References: <6658@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: dwb@apple.com.UUCP (David W. Berry) Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 31 In article <6658@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> haque@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Samudra E. Haque) writes: >QUESTION: Does A/UX support or intend to support multiple users? A/UX is a complete SVR2 implementation (we took the tape and started from there. Therefore, yes, it fully supports multiple users and terminals. > Does A/UX support the regular complement of terminals and types? Yup, in addition you can describe nonstandard terminal types yourself using terminfo. > How many terminals can be attached to Mac II (with or without boards) The basic Mac II has 2 serial ports, thus 2 terminals could be added. After that both AST and SuperMac sell 4 port serial boards allowing you to add 4 terminals per board. > What console specifications for Mac II with A/UX? I'm not sure what you're asking. The console is attached to the normal video screen. It's a 34x88 vt100. > > What RDBMS, Spreadsheet and Communication programs have been > announced for A/UX (and when are they available). Some number of existing macintosh programs will run under A/UX without modification. Naturally they only run on the console since they need a video screen, etc. In addition both Ingres and Oracle have announced ports to A/UX. A/UX comes with tip, cu and uucp, in addition to a full suite of TCP/IP play toys (ftp, telnet, rcp, rlogin, remsh, nfs, ...) Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle) David W. Berry apple!dwb@sun.com dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell