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Apple Unix Before Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-taligent dept.

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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  1. just A/UX, no big secret by tps12 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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?

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    1. Re:just A/UX, no big secret by Fluffy+the+Cat · · Score: 3, Informative

      Except for the NuBus PPC's (when you're using a NuBus slot!)

      Have you seen http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/?

  2. OS X is 2nd time around by 4of12 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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!

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  3. Network Server 500/700 running AIX by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 3, Informative

    An odder curiosity than A/UX was the Network Server 500/700 that ran AIX.

  4. Re:I seem to remember that FSF killed A/UX by tchuladdiass · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually, they didn't "forbid" it per se, as in they didn't have it in their license that you couldn't port it to Apple, however they did formally protest it, and encouraged others to not support GNU software on Apple. The software they distributed contained an /etc/Apple.txt file that had a rant about it.

  5. X also by Jebediah21 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apple also had an X Client as well. I found both the CD's in a drawer in the SysAdmin's office. I should borrow them sometime and get it installed on my old 9500, but with YellowDog out and my lack of time I don't think it will happen anytime soon.

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  6. Ahhhh... by jimjag · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I will always have a fond place in my heart for A/UX. It was, after all, the first thing that made me "noted" among the 'Net community. Yeah, the Jim Jagielski of 'jagubox' is the same Jim Jagielski of Apache/ASF and 'jimjag' of /.

    Oh the horror... the horror