On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 18:57, James S Jones wrote:
> I got a Q700 at a thrift shop a couple of months ago for $3; if you're 
> curious about A/UX, hold on to it until a cosmic event presents you with 
> a Quadra.

Anyone unloading a Quadra for cheap in Tucson? :)

> As noted elsewhere, you won't be able to run A/UX on any Mac emulator 
> that doesn't provide a virtual MMU. But, if for some other reason you'd 
> like to make a ISO9660 copy of the CD, you can mount the HFS Toast image 
> (within Toast) and copy the contents to a new ISO9660 image/CD.

That's what I figured. I wasn't sure if BII had an MMU or not. Just for
the record, does there exist a Mac emulator for non-Mac/Unix platforms
that emulates a MMU? I'm thinking MAE here.

> Here's a related question that may not have been asked elsewhere. Can 
> you run A/UX from within Classic on OS X?

No, you can't. I have a friend with a G4 and OS X, and I just convinced
him to try it. No dice.

> On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 06:40  PM, Grayson Williams wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Okay, now that everyone has told me how to get A/UX, I have several
> > questions about it (and hope this is the right list):
> >
> > 1) Can I run it under Basilisk II on a PC with Linux? I don't have a
> > 68040 Mac, and am not quite sure that I want to invest money in a Quadra
> > just to play with A/UX. I would try it myself, but see Question #2.
> >
> > 2) Is there anyway to convert Toast images to ISO9660? Barring that, is
> > there any way to burn (or even just mount) them on a PC running FreeBSD?
> >
> > Thanks in advance, and my apologies if these questions are
> > stupid/inappropriate/etc.


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