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- From: halpin@vsg1.dsg.dec.com (Stephen E. Halpin)
- Subject: Re: Apple Press Release - Announcing Performa line of computers
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.192900.17603@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <BuLqG6.M5B@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <72389@apple.Apple.COM> <1992Sep15.163408.26460@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 19:29:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.163408.26460@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> sloderb@iris1.sb.fsu.edu (Mike Sloderbeck) writes:
- >In article <72389@apple.Apple.COM> chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
- >>tinsel@uiuc.edu (Thomas Aaron Insel) writes:
- >>>Also, can anyone speculate on whether the 600 could run A/UX?
- >>No.
- >Is this "No, nobody can speculate." or "No, A/UX won't run." :)
- >Seriously, is it that that Apple won't sell/support A/UX on a Performa 600
- >or does A/UX simply not work? Could someone tell or hint at the
- >reason that A/UX would not run.
- >I don't care to try A/UX on a Performa 600, but if it doesn't work,
- >I suspect other features waiting to bite me in the dark!
- >Mike Sloderbeck, FSU Structural Biology
- >sloderb@sb.fsu.edu
- >904-644-3528 (voice) 904-657-8252 (digital pager)
- <<blank lines above stripped>>
- A/UX appears to ship on its own schedule, and it tends to support whatever
- is available at the time that version of A/UX ships. IIsi support came
- about when 2.0.1 shipped, and Quadra support was available when 3.0 shipped.
- 3.0 shipped around 6 months after the Quadra. The reasonable conclusion is
- that the box has the needed pieces (MMU by default with the 68030 and the
- 68882), so the choice will probably by marketing driven rather than technically
- driven, and if marketing says "OK" it probably wont be available until the
- next scheduled release of A/UX.
-
- Now if only they could get it running on the PowerBook 170 with one of
- those aftermarket active matrix color displays (and I won the lottery)
- :-> :-> :-> -Steve
-