The fact t A/UX runs MacOS 7.1, and runs stock binary Sys 7 apps is 
incredibly cool. However, as Unix goes, it's very different from BSD 
variants. I found myself lost w/out a complete set of manuals. A lot of 
things don't work the same way. I know I coudl have gotten help, but I 
already knew BSD, so I just kept using NetBSD. I have another Mac, so I 
can live w/out the MacOS part of A/UX, and it is intollerably slow on an 
SE/30.

Also, I don't believe there is as much software ported to A/UX, or that 
the ports come as soon as they do for NetBSD.

-Capt Avram Dorfman
Chief, Network Operations
email: dorfman@pentagon.mil
(last resort email: avram@pobox.com)

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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

> At 5:53 AM -0800 1/9/98, BGW wrote:
> >I'm just curious, how was A/UX 3.0.1 compared with todays NeBSD mac68k?
> >Has anyone used it, has any comments about it? Is it any good? I'm
> >thinking about installing it on my quadra so I would glad to hear any
> >comments about it. I have tried to look for some information on the net
> >but I haven't found much... and yes, I know it's unsupported, but who
> >cares...
> 
> It's probably faster and more stable on the models it works on.  On the
> other hand it won't ever support the -av models and it won't ever support
> some of the new standard features of Unix like multicast and multi-homing
> (though there is a work-around for the latter).
> 
> I wouldn't exactly say it's unsupported since there is a newsgroup with
> some very knowledgable people on it, but the traffic/interest these days is
> a lot less than it is here.
> 
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