[rescue] A/UX, was RE: Mac: is this an X client?

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Sun Oct 20 19:58:34 CDT 2002


As far as I know, A/UX was SVR2 with a mac emulator stuck on top.

Sort of like OS X without carbon or cocoa or mach, a Classic 
environment stuck at System 7, and X-windows instead of Quartz.

Andrew

On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 08:52  PM, Eric Webb wrote:

> On Sunday 20 October 2002 06:13 pm, Steve Hatle wrote:
>> On 10/20/02 12:59 PM, "Michael Schiller" <schiller at agrijag.com> wrote:
>>> With all this talk of A/UX I've gotta ask... Is A/UX for 68k based 
>>> macs
>>> only, or
>>> will it run on a powermac?
>>>
>>> Mike Hebel wrote:
>>
>> Nope, no PowerMacs, only 68030 and 68040, and certain models there. 
>> This
>> link tells all:
>>
>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aux-faq/part1/
>
>
> Is A/UX at all akin to Amix, or whatever the name was of the Unix 
> flavor that
> Commodore sold for their Amiga line?  I have an A3000UX and one or two 
> of the
> old 1/4" tapes (?) that came with it...
>
>
> -E.
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