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- From: bugow@sunslc.imw.tu-clausthal.de (Rainer Bugow)
- Subject: Re: AU/X 3.0 on PowerBook?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.111200.8819@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:12:00 GMT
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- weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert) writes:
- :
- : AI> Has anybody been trying to run AU/X 3.0 on PowerBook?
- : AI> I know AU/X 3.0 doesn't support PowerBook.
- : AI> But I'm just curious if it's possible or not.
- :
- : I received the following note on the same question recently:
- :
- : PB> No, it won't run on any portable, including all powerbook models.
- : PB> A bad move by Apple, I think.
- :
- : PB> -Phil
- :
- : PB> --
- : PB> Philip J. Brandenberger
- : PB> Swarthmore College, but I don't speak for it, in fact usually against it.
- : PB> pbrande1@cc.swarthmore.edu
- :
- : My guess would be that it has to do with timeouts in low
- : level devices such as the video card, etc. This has been a
- : problem with quite a few 3rd party monitors in the past as
- : well. But this is just a wild guess.
- :
- : Cheers, Thomas.
- :
- :
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- According to an article in the german MACUP magazine (issue 3/92)
- AU/X runs on a PB 170. Limited by the currently available internal HD (80 MB)
- you should be able to install a small AU/X (i.e. without man pages).
-
- Rainer
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- Rainer Bugow bugow@sunslc.imw.tu-clausthal.de
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