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Apple A/UX always felt unfinished to me. Great leveraging the partnership with IBM, but IIRC some Mac apps would fail to run in some weird ways. I played with

Apple A/UX always felt unfinished to me. Great leveraging the partnership with IBM, but IIRC some Mac apps would fail to run in some weird ways. I played with it as a sysadmin at work, on a Mac IIfx with thousands of dollars of RAM installed. Did you ever get to play with the Apple Network Server? A rebadged IBM/6000 box. Apple's approach to distributed network services was really great... Alas. This era was like the Xerox Alto -- visionary, but required $10,000 to run.

ncmncm 8y ago
I had it on an SE/30: 16 MHz 68030, maxed out at 8MB of RAM, 1M per stick. (Later you could get bigger sticks; I never did.) It had floating point hardware 5x as fast as the IBM PC-AT's coprocessor. The whole machine with 80M disk was $2400, in 1990 dollars. It had one slot, taken by the 10Mb/s ethernet card, and a 512x342 monochrome 1-bit-deep display. It ran MacOS7's GUI, and it was as responsive as anything you run today.