Hello Listers, I've been in "Lurk-Mode" (TM Martien) on this list for just over a year now, hiding in the shadows. Mark Benson posted a message over the weekend that finally prompted me to post. He'd found the url for downloading A/UX!
Finding a copy of A/UX has been one of my "holy grails" for a long time. As far as I was aware Apple had made everything up to Mac OS 7.6 as freeware, except A/UX which it considered to be still useful. I knew that A/UX ran on their workgroup servers and is sort of like an X-File in the Mac world, somebody heard that their second cousin used it once in a company that went bust, kind of thing. > I surfed over to the site like a shot and downloaded the 3 files, one was a 1.44 MB >boot floppy image the second was a disk image of the install CD (130MBs) and the >third was an update patch (14MBs). I took them home from work last night and used >the Mac OS X Disk Copy utility to "Burn CD from Disk Image", it took the big file I'd >downloaded, unpacked it and burnt it directly to a CD, very cool. All in all the >unpacked CD was about 400MB. > > After successfully creating the disks, now the hard part. A/UX only runs on 68k >apple machines AND it needs at least a 500MB harddisk. The only 68k machine I had >that was powerful enough was the Mac IIcx which I'd gutted for the parts (battery, >RAM and video card). Then I remembered that an SE/30 I'd found last weekend in a >thrift store here in Brussels has a 68030. So I took the 500MB disk that was in the >IIcx and put it in the SE/30. The first time I tried to install A/UX by booting from >the downloaded boot floppy it complained that 2MB of RAM was not enough so I ripped >out the eight 256K SIMMS it came with and put 8 x 1MB SIMMS in. This worked the >second time and the darn thing installed, amazing! > > Superficially it looks a lot like Mac OS 7.6 but its UNIX under the hood. I didn't >have time yet to make any screenshots but there is an excellent write up of the whole >system over at :- > > http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html > > It's a great article and well worth the read. > > I'd always imagined that A/UX would never be available on the web and that I'd have >to find an original set of disks somewhere. I still can't believe its running on an >SE/30, that's incredible. Now I have just one "holy grail" left, a NEXT cube (kudos >to Eagle). I think that's going to be very difficult to find outside of North >America. Tim Berners-Lee, the Brit who invented the web at CERN in Switzerland had >one, I day dream about finding his old machine in a Berne flea market. > If anybody has any experiences of using A/UX on a compact, please share them. My next plan is to get it running on my colo(u)r classic, I'll keep you posted. Best regards > Ben > > -- > Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Replacement Apple CDROMs from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 > PPC 5400/200Mhz 16/1.6GB/CD/ENET/L2 $119, 5+ for $99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> > The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> > Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com > -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... SPECIAL LIST PRICES - Replacement Apple CDROMs from $19.99, MacOS 8.5 CD $79.99 PPC 5400/200Mhz 16/1.6GB/CD/ENET/L2 $119, 5+ for $99 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
