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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Different % A/UX and logging on to UNIX System through modem
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- Date: 28 Jul 92 13:03:06 GMT
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- cyor@logos.uwaterloo.cawrites:
-
- >I am planning to buy A/UX this week but does not know if it is necessarily.
-
- >Question A: What is the different among the following:
-
- > 1) running A/UX on the Mac
-
- Under A/UX, the Mac environment is run as a Unix process. System7 under
- A/UX is _very_ similar to the "real" MacOS System7.
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- > 2) loggon to UNIX System from home through communication software
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- If you setup the modem port correctly (with a correct cable) then you can
- call your A/UX box from home (is that what you mean)?
-
- > 3) the above (Pt.2) + MacX
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- The interface when calling in is ASCII terminal.
-
- >Question B:
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- > If the NEC CD ROM can't read A/UX, then how can I install the programs?
- > What about installing it in a system with a Apple CD ROM and then
- > copy all the file (through Optical Disk or Floppies)?
- > Will this work?
-
- Ack!
-
- Better to borrow the Apple CD ROM and install on your mac and disk.
-
- A/UX is _big_!
-
- >Question C:
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- > Does anybody knows any Erasable Optical Disk that will be
- > competitable with A/UX?
-
- Hmmm... Don't know about that...
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