A/UX & the Device Manager

David W. Berry dwb at sticks.apple.com
Wed May 24 08:26:31 AEST 1989


In article <31442 at apple.Apple.COM> phil at apple.com (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>Mike Chow (of Apple) brought up the issue of the Device Manager and A/UX.
>DAs (which are a kind of device driver) are definitely supported under A/UX.
>
>However, device drivers, those little goodies which like to touch and play
>with hardware aren't, as well as any DAs that touch and play with hardware.
>
>DAs yes -- entities that play with hardware, no.
	Well, to be more precise, MACINTOSH DRIVERS ARE SUPPORTED.
What isn't supported is direct access to hardware or accesses to
certain managers, such as the SCSI or ADB managers, be it by a driver
or an application (such as "Apple Scan")

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David W. Berry		(A/UX Toolbox Engineer)
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