Apple Unix Before Mac OS X

cascadefx writes "I found a great article over at Applefritter about Unix on an Apple before Mac OS X. It seems that Apple played with a commercial version of Unix (AT&T Unix to be exact) on top of which ran the good old 68K Mac OS stuff. Great piece that covers a lot of the UI and architecture. It also has screen shots of the thing up and running in 2001, and the author steps through issues like networking and compiling code on the platform. Enjoy." The article's a good read, and brings back some fond memories ...

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just A/UX, no big secret

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I don't know why the headline and intro here make it sound like this is some kind of top-secret research project that's only now being revealed. Wasn't A/UX a fairly well-known and succesful product?

OS X is 2nd time around

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Right, now I remember there used to be some A/UX for the Apple back in the 1980s.

Then, too, even earlier, there used to be Xenix for the PC by MS.

Mebbe Redmond should come up with it's own 2nd generation UNIX?

Then, every major OS could be a UNIX variant and easier to cross port.

Also, MS would have a chance to prove it can compete on a level playing field. They have talented staff, probably many with UNIX experience. Let them loose instead of having them tend the spaghetti of Windows and Office!