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- From: kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky)
- Subject: Re: A/UX compaitable systems? (was Re: AUX with MAC IIvx why not?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.194758.10618@nwnexus.WA.COM>
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- References: <1992Dec17.161344.16818@aragorn.unibe.ch> <1992Dec20.074836.9082@cs.umb.edu> <1992Dec20.193927.10485@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 19:47:58 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.193927.10485@nwnexus.WA.COM> kanefsky@halcyon.com (Steve Kanefsky) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec20.074836.9082@cs.umb.edu> mike@ra.cs.umb.edu (Michael J. Thibodeau) writes:
- >
- >>o What about a Duo?210 or 230?
- >
- >They Don't run A/UX, and may never run it. The PowerBooks and Duos use
- >sophisticated power management, which is somewhat incompatable with UNIX
- >(which likes to run stuff in the background 24 hours/day). The 210 is
- >definitely out because you need an FPU for A/UX. At least it's within
- >the realm of possibility now, however. Until now, there just weren't
- >big enough hard disks and you couldn't put enough RAM into a PowerBook
- >to run A/UX effectively.
-
- Correction: Neither the 210 or 230 could run A/UX outside of a dock
- because neither one has an FPU (I suppose Apple could drop the FPU
- requirement in a future release of A/UX somehow). So far, there aren't
- any portable docks with FPUs in them. It's the PowerBook 170 and 180
- that are within the realm of possibility, but power management is still
- a problem.
-
-
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- Steve Kanefsky
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