A/UX in Canada
Ryan Jorgenson
ryan
Sat Jun 10 06:59:58 AEST 1989
Can ANYBODY answer a few SIMPLE questions about A/UX? Apparently none
of the "Official" sources here in Canada can.
I've tried all the "Authorized Apple Dealers" and even APPLE CANADA;
no answers. Here are the questions:
What does the Documenter's Workbench contain?
(From a recent net article, I gather that it does include
versions of troff, nroff, etc, but that was more than
Apple Canada could tell me!!!)
What does the Programmer's Workbench contain?
(I have been trying to find out if A/UX includes a C compiler,
a native code assembler, YACC, LEX, etc, but nobody can tell
me. They all point out that it includes "C-shell, Bourne shell
and Korne (sp?) shells", but its obvious that they don't understand
the difference between a shell and a compiler)
How do I get A/UX in Canada?
(APPLE Canada tells me that they are "in the process of laying the
foundations for the Authorization procedures to allow dealers to
sell the product". How's that again? A/UX has been around HOW long
and they haven't even decided who is authorized to sell it in
Canada?!?!?!! Worse still, they tell me that until they have
authorized dealers to carry A/UX, I can't buy it in Canada?
(Reminds me of a certain classic TV commercial: Only in America you
say? Pity.)
The Authorized Apple Dealer I talked to said that the word
he got from APPLE Canada was that they MIGHT sell A/UX to me IF I
could prove that I wasn't going to need support. HOLD ON A SECOND!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't APPLE supposed to be TRYING to
sell A/UX? Rather than fighting tooth and claw to PREVENT a sale?
Is there ANYBODY in Canada running A/UX? If so, HOW DID YOU PRY IT OUT OF
APPLE?!
If I can manage to pry A/UX out of Apple Canada, how hard can it be
to get it up and running? (I presently administer a network of 10
Sun Workstations running SunOS, and I am reasonably familiar with the
System V UNIX environment as well.)
Sorry about all the flames here, but I can't understand why Apple is
so anti-A/UX here in Canada.
If anybody can answer any of these questions, I would appreciate it.
Thanks.
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