[SPARCbook] Precisionbook on ebay

[Jock Murphy]

To pick this scab even furtor:

Actually Apple briefly sold a Z8000 based unix box in the early 80's
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Nathan J. Mehl" <memory at blank.org>
Reply-To: sparcbook at sunhelp.org
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 13:23:58 -0400

>> I have run into a lot of people who have somehow aquired sparcbooks
>> and other esoteric Unix hardware, and simply do not know that it
>> does not run Windows or Mac OS. They think a computer is a computer.
>> I was given an Apple Netserver (An AIX variant from Apple based on
>> PowerPC, nearly identical to the RS6000... it was the only truly
>> native Apple Unix box, 
>
>Actually not quite true.  Apple shipped _one_ native unix box, several
>years before the ANS boxes: The Apple Workgroup Server 950.  It came
>out of the box running A/UX 4.01, and the A/UX version of AppleShare.
>
>A/UX was Apple's mutant version of SVR2+MacOS7, which was roundly
>despised by just about everyone.  It would be mostly an historical
>footnote, except that its basic conceptual architecture (*nix
>underworks with most of the MacOS API and graphical widgets loosely
>nailed on top) is eerily similar to NextStep 6.0, er, I mean "MacOS X".
>
>Yours for more pedantry,
>
>-n
>
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