[TUHS] A/UX [was Linux is on-topic]

[arnold at skeeve.com]

ISTR that A/UX was nothing special as a Unix.  Am I failing to remember?

I had had a DMD 5620 at my job, and after I moved to a different place
and requested one, they graced me with a Macintosh.  It could sort of
do multiple windows, but it was like having a piper cub after being
used to a 747.

Other interesting bits for the Mac to maybe recover would be Mach Ten,
which ran Mach on top of regular MacOS. (Talk about inverted pyramids...)
There was also a Mach/Linux that I think ran on the Mac at some point.

Arnold

Michael Parson <mparson at bl.org> wrote:

> On 2020-07-18 23:42, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> > On 7/18/20 9:46 PM, Wesley Parish wrote:
> >> I'd still love to have that running.
> > 
> > I think I've seen articles about people running it running
> > virtualization / emulation.
>
> As far as I've been able to find, there is only one emulator that can 
> run A/UX, shoebill[0].
>
> I've got a Mac Quadra 950 with a Workgroup Server 95 card in it in the 
> garage that I've been planning on someday trying to get A/UX running on, 
> but haven't found enough round tuits.
>
> Maybe if someone could rip the 680[34]0+MMU bits out of Win/FS-UAE 
> (Amiga emulator) and patch them into Basilisk II (Mac 68K emulator), 
> A/UX might work there.
>
> -- 
> Michael Parson
> Pflugerville, TX
> KF5LGQ
>
> [0] https://github.com/emaculation/shoebill