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

[Derrik Walker v2.0]

I used Mach10 and Later MkLinux as my UNIXy systems while in College before I got my first Sun Workstation in the mid ’90’s. 

Interestingly enough. MkLinux was actually ported to Old World PowerMacs by Apple and HP.  I think they also made.a version PCs too.

And Mach10 was interesting.  Different.  I also had Minix for the Mac, it worked much the same, as an app that sat onto of MacOS.  

- Derrik 

> On Jul 20, 2020, at 4:47 AM, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> 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
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