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Discussion summary

Discussions focus on installing and running A/UX 1.1 on vintage hardware, with some users attempting to port open source software and share installation experiences.

What the discussion says

  • Some users successfully installed A/UX on older Macs like Quadra 650.
  • Others shared challenges with floppy disk swapping during installation.
  • Enthusiasts reminisced about building software and running early internet services on A/UX.
“I got a Quadra 650 and put A/UX on it successfully.”
— asveikau
“Swapping through 26 floppies to install would have been... Something.”
— kjs3

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  • I wonder if Nethack 3.4.3 or Slashem 0.8 could build on a recent version of A/UX...
    by anthk
  • I picked up an SE/30 at the MIT flea (SwapFest) in 1999, hell bent on running A/UX on it. Never even got an installer disk image to boot.
    by baron3dl
  • there will always be a special place in my heart for a/ux. i ported a lot of open source software to it. ran a bbs, cu-seeme server, gopherd, httpd, and many other early internet services on it. this really gave me an early taste for what the internet would become.
    by latchkey
  • > To start off the install, we begin with the “System setup and README” disk. We need to partition the disk, and then do something counter-intuitive: install System 6 on a Mac partition. This is because there’s a Mac application that kicks off the A/UX boot process: SASH; the A/UX standalone shell. This ‘pre-boot environment’ allows for launching an A/UX kernel and also some disk and recovery operations.

    Funny how that rhythms with having a macOS install next to Asahi Linux. The more things change:)

    Also, swapping through 26 floppies to install would have been... Something.

    by yjftsjthsd-h

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