Apple A/UX (Apple's old Unix Software)

[AdmiralAK]

Well, My Perform 635 is just gathering up dust in my storage area Some experimenting at teh end of the semster might be in order.

So, do I need to buy a whole new 68040 chip or is there a way to modify my LC040 to make it into a regular 040 ?


As for the newton, newtons can communicate with each other, beaming mostly. There are ethernet cards out there as well to bring em into a network (someone actually made a web server out of a newton with a regular out of the box newton, no special mods he he). I was wondering if I could create some netwoek between a Newotn 2100, a zaurus Linux Pda, a Psion Revo (or 5mx) and an iPaq he he.


Admiral

[RacerX]

Basically Motorola cut the path between the FPU and CPU on the 68LC040's before encasing them. So yeah, you'll need a new one.

The web hosting on a Newton sounds like fun, I'll have to look into that.

[AdmiralAK]

dang, oh well, maybe I will play around with it before it bites the dust (for good)


As for the newton take a look here:
http://homepage.mac.com/LightyearDes....html#NewtonOS



Admiral

[thedbp]

This is an awesome thread. Just had to mention that.

As far as hardware goes for a/ux, what size HD would u need as a bare minimum? RAM? I think I have a machine that would be fairly good at this, a Quadra660 w/ 52MB of RAM and 700MB HD. Would this make a good lightweight server? I also have an LCIII with ethernet, 32MB of RAM, and 160MB HD. Would it be worth putting it on there too? I also have a Centris660 w/ 24MB RAM and a 270MB HD with a 1GB external. How would that fare? I'm just full of questions!!!!!! and as soon as Anarchy is done d/l'ing the images, i'll be chock full of answers

zeb

[RacerX]

As for minimum hardware, Apple says the with the minimum install you should be able to run it on a SE/30 (68030/16MHz, 68882) with 8/80 (you would be missing alot of stuff though). I'm running it on a Quadra 700 (68040/25MHz) with 24/500. I would personally put the lower end at and 68030 with FPU or 68040 with at least 16/200. It should work great on all of the Centris 650, Quadra 610 and 650 systems as long as you have the Enabler for those systems that works with System 7 (I think you can still download those from Apple because you can still download System 7.0.1). As for the 660 and 840 series systems... I don't know. Those were very special systems that put them beyond the other Quadras and almost in the same league as the first generation Power Macs. I would guess that because 3.0.1 supports the Quadra 800, that it would also work with the 660 and 840 systems. But again, I really don't know for sure.

As for the LC III systems, they didn't have the 68882 FPU. The Mac IIsi had a card that you could get to add one, but I don't remember if the same was true for the LC systems.

(Note: the Centris 610 has a 68LC040 and would need to have it replaced with the 68040, which is what the Quadra 610 came with, in order to run A/UX).

[thedbp]

After finding a great FAQ about this OS online, I discovered that none of the AV models are supported, so both my Centris and Quadra 660 will be useless for this, as will my LCIII. And the only other Macs I have are all Power Macs. I can't believe I have this many Macs and not a one that will freaking run this OS ... but oh well, I have it on disk for the collection at least And I can't believe I missed refurb madness' free 68K sale...

[theCaptain]

If you can find some roms of a system that will run this OS, fire up a mac emulator such as Bassilik 2 and then install A/UX through this emulation. I believe their is a Bassilik 2 version for Unix so you can probablly recompile it to run A/UX is OS X.

[kilowatt]

I took the 68040 out of my dad's Centris 660av when we upgraded it to a 100mhz chip.

The 68040 from the centris worked flawlessly in a Pareforma 636cd. It ran at 33mhz, and the FPU was noticed in system 8.1 (system profiler).

Now, I have both computers and a PowerMac 660AV. I'd love to put something extremely rare on them all... like next or a/ux. Any ideas?