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- From: rhs@world.std.com (Richard H Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: AUX and Duo
- Message-ID: <Bz41v7.2GA@world.std.com>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 19:52:19 GMT
- References: <1992Dec10.153941.29679@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- grs@coos.dartmouth.edu (Gregory R. Sengle) writes:
-
- >I need some help with a purchacing decision.
- >I am about to buy a duo 230 and duo dock, installing 12 megs of ram
- >into the powerbook, and putting a second drive in the dock.
- >My intention was to be able to run aux, with sys 7 on the powerbook
- >drive and aux on the docks drive. I know that the systems
- >can be split up this way, but that the main thing which is standing
- >in my way is that aux 3.0 is incompatible with 7.1 and worse yet,
- >for some reason incompatible with the powerbooks.
- >Could someone please shed some light on this for me?
-
- A 7.1 compatible version of A/UX is rumored to be in the pipeline.
- A powerbook and/or duo version is *not*. The word from inside Apple
- is that the techies want to do it. They can do it. The marketing
- guys have concluded that it is not a priority.
-
- If there are any Apple marketing types out there, listen up! There are
- plenty of us out here who would buy duos (with one or maybe even two
- docks), and or powerbooks if only we could run A/UX on them. It is now
- too late for me. I've found an alternate solution, and that solution
- involved a 486 not a Mac. Now in addition to Mac and Unix, I'll have
- the DOS/Windows environment available on a piece of hardware that I
- use every day. You've forced me to bring the opposition into my office.
- How likely do you think it is that when I need another machine I'm going
- to go with the Mac? On price-performance you come up way short. You
- win hands down on the whiz-bang technical merits. But when your newest
- and neatest products with their solutions to new problems don't work with
- your older whiz-bang achievements, you prove that all you care about is
- having the newest and neatest, not the best and most useful for your
- customers. Great marketing strategy! :-( :-(
-
- -rich
-
-
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- Richard H. Schwartz, Scheduling Systems Inc.,
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