26 Feb
2017
26 Feb
'17
10:06 a.m.
There is that emulator shoebill which can run A/UX, even the 0.7 version which has the
lower level unisoft sysv source.
But by the time they got around to version 3 it was an incredibly robust UNIX with a very
simple UI, and by nature had access to an incredible amount of apps being source sysv
compatible, and could run most sys6/7 apps, including SoftPC!
It's crazy that Apple never ported it to the PowerPC, as they basically had a next
gen OS right under their nose the whole time, and ended up paying to port NeXT to the
PowerPC, and doing the carbon shuffle to get apps... But Apple has never been shy from
doing things strange.
On February 26, 2017 3:02:20 AM GMT+08:00, Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 2/25/17 6:17 AM, Arno Griffioen wrote:
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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
the original Apple A/UX (now *that* was an
interesting oddball though..)
The original release was based on Unisoft UniPlus+, with some boot
resiliency added.