> > My Mac IIfx used a ROM SIMM. The IIfx was the last Mac I ever
> > bought, too, after the way Apple treated IIfx owners.
>
> One hell of a Mac, though. I only wish the thing was documented so
> I could get from Apple OS 7.x and/or A/UX to something like NetBSD on
> it.
Apple's refusal to document the system was one problem. Another problem
I had (that I started griping about during the A/UX 3.0 beta test) was
Apple wouldn't let the engineers support the GPi pin on the serial ports
under A/UX because not all Macs had the GPi pin. I continuously pointed
out that all Macs that could run A/UX *DID* have the GPi pin, and they
could allow this to be a configuration option. Without the GPi pin there
was no way to have secure dial-in and hardware flow control, which means
you really didn't want to have a dial-in connection on your A/UX system.
There's a lot of other ways Apple mistreated IIfx owners.
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Eric Dittman
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Received on Tue Sep 18 2001 - 11:28:11 BST