A/UX Release 2.0
David W. Berry
dwb at archer.apple.com
Wed Mar 21 08:46:11 AEST 1990
In article <1990Mar20.181959.16435 at smurf.sub.org> urlichs at smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
>Does the A/UX kernel finally support the Berkeley FFS, and/or the
>#!/usr/bin/whatever convention? Or ar these still the "almost" in the above
>"almost anything"?
>The above are, to me at least, the two most annoying non-features A/UX has.
Well, since A/UX 2.0 has now been annoucned (see elsewheres for
complete announcements, it's been posted), yes the 2.0 kernel
will support both FFS and the #!/usr/bin/whatever convention.
>
>Oh yes, I'd also like to have TIOCCONS instead of /dev/osm, please.
>(Ever had "tail -f /dev/osm" cause a kernel bus error?)
Well, there is now a TIOCSETCONS, which probably does just
about the same thing.
>
>Is there a decent Mac-like text editor? Or the functional equivalent to the
>MPW Shell? (Long list of superb MPW shell features, sadly missing from Unix,
>omitted.)
Well, MPW runs with a single patch, and there is a Mac-like text
editor as well.
>
>NB: Sorry if this sounds like more or less unnecessary bickering about a good
>product. It is (good, I mean), but it could be better. What couldn't?
We're really trying to make it much better. We think that A/UX
2.0 shows Apple's intention to make the best A/UX we can. Not
that our ideas of "best" will always agree with yours, but we'll
consider anything.
>--
>Matthias Urlichs
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