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- November 8th, 2001, 11:29 PM #1
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Apple A/UX (Apple's old Unix Software) Just got a copy of Apple Unix. I cant explain to you how cool it will be to mess around with this ancient OS. This must be some kind of collectors item. I am going to install it on my old 6200 series Performa.
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- November 9th, 2001, 12:07 AM #2
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- November 9th, 2001, 07:34 AM #3
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u guys are making me jealous
I have the OS but it is not installed lol.
Hey racer, didnt NeXTSTEP cost $800 (non student version) initially ?
Why did lal these unixen cost so much ???
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- November 9th, 2001, 09:26 AM #4
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It had to do with the licensing of Unix (or BSD in the case of NEXTSTEP), the whole thing was way out of proportion with the rest of the OS market. When Linux became a viable alternative, everyone sorta woke-up and slash the prices on the licensing. For a while it looked like the different flavors of Unix were about to price themselves out of existence with Linux being free for the most part (perfect price for students who would become the future admins).
Also, NeXT had signed a settlement with Apple stating that they would not complete head to head, so NeXT was trying to complete with Sun in the low end workstation market (just above Apple's high end design systems in price).
- November 9th, 2001, 12:30 PM #5
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A/UX is SVR4 isn't it? I wonder what real advantage BSD (OS X) has over SVR4 (Solaris, Linux)?
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- November 9th, 2001, 04:56 PM #6
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And don't forget that Irix is based on SVR4 also.
The best way to characterize what A/UX uses would be SVR2.2+. The foundations are SVR2.2 with some libraries and extensions from R3 and R4 and the filing systems and NSF from 4.2/4.3BSD.
As for advantages for BSD, filing system and NSF are the top of most people's list. The main reason for Apple going with 4.4BSD was that NeXT use 4.3BSD in the original Mach kernel as the interface layer (though for NeXT it may have had something to do with the high price of licensing System V).
- November 9th, 2001, 10:11 PM #7
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Who developed the Mach kernel ?
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- November 9th, 2001, 10:37 PM #8
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It was developed at Carnegie Mellon University in the mid 1980's. One of the people who worked on it was a graduate student named Avie Tevanian (who is currently Senior VP of Software at Apple now).
You can find more on it at:
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.e.../www/mach.html
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