[TUHS] Linux is on-topic

[Michael Parson]

On 2020-07-21 22:41, Jason wrote:
> The emulator Shoebill can run A/UX
> https://github.com/pruten/Shoebill
> 
> It’s pretty awesome.
> 
> 
>     	3.0 is the last version that is stable(ish).  Naturally the MacOS
> installer won’t run so a bunch of Unix legwork is required.
> I’m not sure if this email will make the list but I’ll try....
> Anyway the developer of Shoebill got snapped up by a certain fruit
> vendor so no updates...

Guess that explains why he's not touched it since 2014.  The 
'emaculation'
github account[0] seems to be where the primary dev work on it is being 
done
now, but seems to be slow going, the last commit was Sept 2019.

> As for A/UX it’s SYSV with the c and fortran compilers built in.
>  Apparently it was going to be Steve’s “Big Mac” project that was
> sidelined after he was pushed out.  Although there is so many crazy
> rumours of that window at the end of Apple and the start of NeXT.

-- 
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ

[0] https://github.com/emaculation/shoebill