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Zucca
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on: February 09, 2009, 19:37

Anyone of you have A/UX installed and running? As server prehaps?
Tell us the pros and cons about it if you have any experience.
Spintronic
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Reply #1 on: March 16, 2024, 04:03

I wish. Do you have installation media for it?
MTT
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Reply #2 on: March 16, 2024, 04:32

The Macintosh Garden has these in their collection:

A/UX (Apple UNIX for 68k) version 0.7
A/UX (Apple UNIX for 68k) version 1.1.1
A/UX (Apple UNIX for 68k) version 2.0
Apple A/UX 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 Reference Archive
Apple A/UX 3.0.0 and 3.0.1 (WGS95) Reference Archive
Apple A/UX 3.0.1 'Menagerie' Beta Seed Disks...
A/UX (Apple UNIX for 68k) version 3.0.1 + 3.1 update

Plus several discussion pages to review.
Last Edit: March 16, 2024, 04:36 by MTT
ClassicHasClass
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Reply #3 on: March 16, 2024, 04:37

I have it running on a clock-chipped 36MHz Q800. It works well on that system; the Q800 is the fastest Mac, in fact, that can run it (since the AVs can't).

You'll need to add some of the jagubox software to make a meaningful system, and a great deal of current code won't compile on it, even with gcc 2.7. But a lot of older source code will work fine.

The chief problem with using it (at least in the A/UX Finder) is that few, if any, video accelerators work, so it's not nearly as snappy as System 7 by itself even on a system this comparatively quick.
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