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A\UX
has anybody here ever run A\UX?
its incompatible with the ppc's
i have never seen a\ux in person and i was wondering about hands on experience with it
its incompatible with the ppc's
i have never seen a\ux in person and i was wondering about hands on experience with it
A/UX is a fairly old AT&T based Unix implementation. It allows you to use a Mac like desktop, which is largely compatible with Mac software and has MacX to run X software. It also offers a straight X11(R5?) front-end.
The Unix end has at least one nice extension: a Commando interface that allows you to issue Unix shell commands by pointing and clicking. Even though it is annoying for regular use, it is a quick way to learn how these commands work and which options are available. If you want to see Commando in action, it's also available for MPW (a free download from Apple). Apple also provides compilers to keep developers happy. And lets face it, programming environments were one of the big reasons to use Unix systems back in the day.
The Unix end has at least one nice extension: a Commando interface that allows you to issue Unix shell commands by pointing and clicking. Even though it is annoying for regular use, it is a quick way to learn how these commands work and which options are available. If you want to see Commando in action, it's also available for MPW (a free download from Apple). Apple also provides compilers to keep developers happy. And lets face it, programming environments were one of the big reasons to use Unix systems back in the day.
i know what A\UX is i just wanted to know if anybody had some hands exprience with the dinosaur
I did for a short while.
I used it on my Quadra 700 for a while but I found it a little limited for that particular Mac, which I re-installed with system 7.5. I never really explored A/UX very much but it looks and feels very much like System 7.1.
Might stick A/UX on my IIcx as I don't seem to be using it for much else at the moment.
Might stick A/UX on my IIcx as I don't seem to be using it for much else at the moment.
I've had it installed on a box for, oh, about 18-24 months now maybe??? I don't use the GUI though. I've installed bash, and from a command line it feels much like any other Unix, with "typical" variations on command paths and administrative commands. I released some new software for A/UX a couple months ago.
It isn't compatible with the ppcs; A/UX runs on 68k only, and then only specific machines from among the 68k lineup.
I have it on a Q950, modified with the appropriate PDS card to be an AWS95 in all but the name badge.
More information, please. I don't suppose that release included Apache ;-) Has anyone updated A/UX so that it can securely face the internet as a web or FTP server?
No, it was a utility to allow setting 21st century dates from a command line, for those of us that don't use the GUI. The standard date command didn't account for that.
Someone recently compiled the latest Apache 1.x for A/UX. Still, I wouldn't consider it exactly "safe" to run a public A/UX server. It hasn't been updated since 1995, and there's no way to do so, either. It's a dead OS to Apple, and they're not going to release the source.
Have you read the FAQ? The software forum has a sticky post.
As a potential alternative, does anyone have any experience with say NetBSD and running Basilisk or another emulator on top of it in native CPU mode?
I too also have had experience with A/UX. I have it on a Mac IIci at the moment, however, I've been too busy to break it out for a while now. Last I recall though, setting up the networking card wasn't too easy. Oh, and the compiler that comes with the base install is total crap. I hope there is a more advanced gcc out there for it. Whatever...
I run NetBSD or A/UX on all my 68k Macs.
I may be the MLA's resident expert on 68k Unices.If you're asking about running A/UX in emulation, the answer is "you can't". Oddly, the reason for this is not in the FAQ (yet...I'll be adding it soon).
I can't say I've used Apple's cc. I have a copy of c89 too, but haven't tried to use it. You can get gcc 2.7.2, and in theory you could build 3.0 or 3.1 for A/UX too. After 3.[01] support for A/UX was removed from the gcc source tree.