Hello group (all three(?) of you)... What would you say are the distinctives of A/UX? What really sets it apart from all (or at least most) other Unices? Not just particular quirks (though it would be interesting to know about those too) but features or characteristics that really define the A/UX experience. Since A/UX was... more »
Hi there, Is there a copy of Oracle 7 for a/ux somewhere out there in the ether for download? I saw mention of it on an old 68K MLA thread: [link] Cheers Andrew
Seems like most people run A/UX 3.x these days, 2.x might be around somewhere, but has anybody found 1.x online anywhere? Anybody have originals of 1.x and 2.x?
I've searched for this for a few weeks now. Nothing on eBay. None of my friends have it (not that I have many). Trusted retro Mac stores haven't seen it for years. No leads on Google. I just acquired a Mac SE/30 and was hoping to tinker with A/UX on it. If anyone knows of someone who's got a disk for sale... I imagine they... more »
Going through my old stuff, I found 5 binders of the original A/UX version 3.0 manuals. They are: A/UX Essentials MacX User's Guide X11 User's Guide for A/UX A/UX Networking Essentials Setting Up Accounts and Peripherals for A/UX They're all in excellent shape, just a few pages wrinkled on that last... more »
I was able to build this without any code changes. There was a redefined function because the configure script does not check the headers in the gcc directory. Using the following line to configure sets the variable and avoids the problem. CFLAGS="-D_POSIX_SOURCE -DHAVE_MKFIFO" LDFLAGS="-lposix" ./configure... more »
This is only a minor update. I manually applied the patches that accompanied the 1.14.2 binary, used the same procedure mentioned in that README, and built this. JimJag had noted back in Sep 1996 that those patches would work, but as far as I could tell nobody had ever bothered to distribute the updated binary. So now someone has.... more »
The version of UNIX for Apple Macintosh II computers.
