Another misleading "answer" about A/UX

[John Gilmore]

cmkuo at cs.utexas.edu (Chin-Ming Kuo) writes:
> 3. What's the current status of Mac OS support? I know you can run
> well-behaved Mac applications within A/UX, how about interface
> between mac applications and A/UX such as cut and paste.

phil at Apple.COM (Phil Ronzone) wrote:
> No cut and paste -- i.e., vi doesn't have the faintest idea of what cut
> and paste is.
> 
> But, when running term, you can cut and paste text.

He neglected to mention that MacOS applications take up the entire
screen, leaving you unable to run Unix applications (except from
another terminal, or over the Ethernet).  And there is no MultiFinder
under A/UX, it's strictly zero or one MacOS applications at a time.

So, even if vi did know what cut and paste was, A/UX would not let you
type to "vi" while your MacOS application was running.

Also, even "well-behaved" MacOS applications, and Unix programs,
can't access MacOS disks or partitions -- only Unix files.  There
is a special "ftp"-like program for copying things in and out.
If you partition a disk as half-MacOS and half-AUX, you will have
two separate worlds, rebooting to get back and forth.  It's nothing
like the way DOS runs on a Sun 386i.
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