What's your specialty?

From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Wed Feb 6 19:57:22 2002

> > allocation and management scheme, it tends to crash less than Windows simply
> > because we're not shoveling (as much) badly written software in it.
>
> No argument there at all. But 9.1 broke all my old software, like
> Stuffit... And it is sooooo slllooooowwww....

Really? I still can use StuffIt Deluxe 3.0.7 on my 9.1 systems.

> 8.1 is my favorite for actually doing stuff, with 6.0.8 as the
> aesthetic winner.
> If I ever get around to talking one of the Macsters here into letting
> me evaluate X.1, I'd like to try it. Assuming the OldWorld hacks for
> OSX still work. (We're talking about an 8500/180 in a 7200 box....)

I'm itchy enough about the OldWorld hacks (especially with my precious 7300)
that I'm not willing to try OS X on my OldWorld Power Macs. Since I plan to
buy myself a top-o'-the-line Power Mac when I graduate from medical school,
I'll be using OS X eventually, but the 7300 will probably be my main machine
even then out of habit.

> > Have you tried A/UX? Note to those who asked: I got it working! Mail me
> > for details if you want the steps I took (YMMV).
>
> Got it up & on the local network on a Quadra 650, up without ethernet
> on the SE/30 (this weekend's project is a SLIP server for him.) and when
> I pick up the IIci, I'll probably put MacOS back on the Quadra so I can
> play with the DOS card....

The way I configured A/UX on the IIci was to build two MacOS partitions;
one for A/UX's official MacPartition and then one when I want plain old
MacOS independent of A/UX. I also didn't bother with an Autorecovery
partition -- some people in the know have mentioned it rarely does the job
it was supposed to, and there's little it seems to do that fsck doesn't
(IMHO).

> I'm seeing a lot of A/UX influence behind user-space Linux.

In what way?

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