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- From: add@is.rice.edu (Arthur Darren Dunham)
- Subject: Re: A/UX on PowerBook:Anyone tried ?
- Message-ID: <C1I875.CMr@rice.edu>
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- Organization: Rice University
- References: <brownlow.728089224@xanadu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:42:41 GMT
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- In article <brownlow.728089224@xanadu> brownlow@informix.com (Keith Brownlow) writes:
- >I would like to run some applications that need Unix. I own a PowerBook
- >170 and have found that the applications run on A/UX. I have read the
- >FAQ on this newsgroup which states that A/UX 3.0 will not run on the
- >PowerBooks. Would previous versions run ? I contacted Apple who said that
- >A/UX is not SUPPORTED on a PowerBook, which is a little different from
- >not running on a PowerBook. My idea would be to install 8 meg into the
- >PowerBook (minimum A/UX req.) and have A/UX reside on a large external SCSI
- >drive. Has anyone actually tried this ? Is there some absolute hardware
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- At one point, I had heard that some of the problems with A/UX were a
- lack of drivers for the powerbooks LCD screens.
- Does anyone know if this is the reason?
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- >Keith Brownlow.
- >brownlow@informix.com
- >brownlow@wet.com
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