Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!mcvax!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!eagle.ukc.ac.uk!icdoc!qmc-cs!liam From: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Re: Do you get sources with A/UX? Summary: No, it's just like any binary UNIX release Message-ID: <772@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> Date: 5 Dec 88 12:26:21 GMT References: <2444@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> Reply-To: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) Organization: Computer Science Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK. Lines: 47 Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: In article <2444@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> pez@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Daniel J Pezely) writes: >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? It is a normal binary release of a UNIX system. You get executables, enough stuff to binary reconfigure your system (though it will do it automatically when asked), an online manual but not source thereof, and a printed manual (at least we have a printed manual - it might have been extra). >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? You *HAVE* to have a disk with a MacOS partition bacuase you can only boot A/UX via MacOS. This is a BIG IRRITATION (Apple are you listening?) especially as the A/UX version I have cannot do anything at all with files on the MacOS partition. If anyone is interested we have some code that implements an NFS server for the MacOS partition (read-only) so that you can mount it onto A/UX and then discover that nothing will run properly. >How compatible is it with the Suns? Depends on your Sun. It won't run Sun binaries and it is based on SYs V so some of the include files are different, but otherwise it is usually reasonably easy to get source code across. The biggest culture shock is using initab and a huge mess of nested startup scripts rather than the BSD-style /etc/rc.* files >I tried to ask some local dealers and Apple reps but no one has been able to >answer these seemingly simple questions. Hopefully, someone here can. Yes, well... most Mac dealers sell "black box" computers with "black box" applications and so a UNIX system takes a while to get used to. A/UX seems to be a mystery to a lot of Apple people as well, for that matter. -- William Roberts ARPA: liam@cs.qmc.ac.uk (gw: cs.ucl.edu) Queen Mary College UUCP: liam@qmc-cs.UUCP LONDON, UK Tel: 01-975 5250