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While I will take your point as technically true... I never thought A/UX ever counted. I never felt that A/UX was a true Unix implementation... I had nothing but problems with its implementation.. and I never considered it a real machine... their AIX box is a pretty good machine. I Had several servers experimentally running A/UX, but I never considered them to even compare to a Sparc 5.
Chris

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>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.
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>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".
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