Pretty much playing with it is all I wanted to do. I have a few IIcis a IIcx, Q700, and a IIfx just kind of laying around. I figured I might as well use one to experiment with.
It's too bad Apple decided to stop making this software, I hear it was excellent. -Robyn On Monday, May 22, 2000, at 02:08 AM, Scott Holder wrote: > A/UX is a lot of fun to play with, but unfortunately it's not much use > beyond that. All it's tools are several years old now and haven't been > updated in some time. It also doesn't come with any of the GNU > development > tools you'd really need to make it do much useful these days. > > Plus there's all the security issues that have been fixed over the > years > that still exist in it. > > Naturally all this can be hacked in, but it would take a lot of work. > > Having said that, it is incredibly neat. It feels almost like having > OS X > on your 68k Mac, minus all the eye candy. It even has a "/" drive on > the > desktop. However, unlike OS X, it maintains nearly 100% compatibilty > with > Mac OS fairly natively, right down to most control panels and > extensions > working. > > About the only unfortunate thing is it acts like System 7.0.1 rather > than > 7.1.x. There were some software support changes between the two. > > All in all, a cool thing to play with, but probably not very practical > for > making use of these days. > > Scott Holder -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:vintage.macs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:vintage.macs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:vintage.macs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
