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- From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
- Subject: Re: AU/X 3.0 on PowerBook?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.220012.8289@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 22:00:12 GMT
- References: <WEIGERT.92Jul15140621@etlhit.etl.go.jp> <1992Jul21.111200.8819@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- bugow@sunslc.imw.tu-clausthal.de (Rainer Bugow) writes:
- >weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert) writes:
- [ discussion of why A/UX won't run on PB 170 ]
- >: I received the following note on the same question recently:
- >:
- >: 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.
- >
- >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).
-
- OK. Burn the magazine and shoot the editors. That should clear things up
- a bit. :-)
-
- Those guys should be shining shoes for a living. But then again, the magazine
- that really checks its facts before publication, or marks speculative items
- as such, is a rare thing indeed. So why should they be any different?
-
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