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From: aem@ibiza.Miami.Edu (a.e.mossberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Do you get sources with A/UX?
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Date: 6 Dec 88 20:14:42 GMT
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In <2444@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>,  wrote:
>What exactly do you get and what is needed to run A/UX?  Do you get sources
>or just the executable versions?  Do you get an on-line manual or does that
>come with the $500 bound manuals or since the Mac II is not really a mutli-
>user system like a Vax, are there on-line manuals?

You need 4 meg, an MMMU, etc.  No sources.  On-line manual, incomplete.  I have
yet to receive our hardcopy manuals.

>Is it too much of a pain to have A/UX and Mac/OS partitions on the same dirve
>and run each operating systems in different parts of the day?  Can you run
>them both at the same time?

There's a way to set it up, but not having the manuals I haven't tried it. Can't
run both concurrently.

>How compatible is it with the Suns?  

Not at all.


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