A/UX Display Driver Is Modeled After UNIX Form


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08/31/92 - REVIEWED
* For technical accuracy.


Some Apple UNIX (A/UX) users have asked whether the display drivers used
under A/UX are pure UNIX form drivers, or dependent on the display routines
in the Macintosh Toolbox.

The display driver in A/UX is a text-based driver modeled after "STREAMS",
a UNIX form driver. A/UX's display driver is a full implementation of a
UNIX form driver, minus the multiplexing functions. The shell and
UNIX-executable files that are part of A/UX are text-based.

Most of the Macintosh ToolBox routines are accessible through A/UX as
library calls. These routines may be used in applications to create
Macintosh environments, just as with Macintosh OS applications.


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012