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I’ve been working on getting a Macintosh II to boot A/UX a sys v Unix. My eventual goal is to use it for doing the K and R C exercises, and just generally see w

I’ve been working on getting a Macintosh II to boot A/UX a sys v Unix. My eventual goal is to use it for doing the K and R C exercises, and just generally see what Unix was like.

chevill 5y ago
That sounds like a really interesting project.
- NegativeLatency 5y ago
  http://aux-penelope.com/ http://aux-penelope.com/ There are some resources here if you’re curious and want to see screenshots. (Not my site)
kjs3 5y ago
AU/X was a pretty weird Unix, an SVR2 base with various SVR3 and BSD bits bolted on, all topped off with a mostly-functional (classic) MacOS 7 emulation layer. It wasn't much like other, contemporary Unixen. I did some rather serious time with it in a previous life, and really grew to hate it.
- NegativeLatency 5y ago
  Got any other old Unix recommendations? Was hoping to find xenix or some other old x86 one I could use. What did you use A/UX for?
  - kjs3 5y ago
    SCO Unix (or OpenDesktop or whatever they're calling it now) would be an example of a 'state of the art' x86 Unix before Linux matured. I, however, was always more fond of Dell Unix SVR4 for x86; a more 'pure' Unix. Install images are 'around'. It's new enough to be familiar and comes with a bunch of extras (like a pile of ported GNU tools). Interactive or Microport SVR3 are a little more old-skewl, if that's where you're at. Xenix is very old school, and shows you what you can to with very limited x86 hardware (esp Xenix for the 8086 or 80286), and you'll find a lot of tools you might want don't compile for various reasons (like a K&R C compiler). Other folks shipped an x86 SVR3 or SVR4, but they generally added very little to the AT&T code base. If you go the emulated route (e.g. SIMH), I'd go with BSD 4.3 or Sun SunOS 3.5. That's where I started out with Unix so there's a lot of nostalgia there.

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I’ve been working on getting a Macintosh II to boot A/UX a sys v Unix. My eventual goal is to use it for doing the K and R C exercises, and just generally see w

by NegativeLatency 5y ago

I’ve been working on getting a Macintosh II to boot A/UX a sys v Unix. My eventual goal is to use it for doing the K and R C exercises, and just generally see what Unix was like.

chevill 5y ago
That sounds like a really interesting project.
- NegativeLatency 5y ago
  http://aux-penelope.com/ http://aux-penelope.com/ There are some resources here if you’re curious and want to see screenshots. (Not my site)
kjs3 5y ago
AU/X was a pretty weird Unix, an SVR2 base with various SVR3 and BSD bits bolted on, all topped off with a mostly-functional (classic) MacOS 7 emulation layer. It wasn't much like other, contemporary Unixen. I did some rather serious time with it in a previous life, and really grew to hate it.
- NegativeLatency 5y ago
  Got any other old Unix recommendations? Was hoping to find xenix or some other old x86 one I could use. What did you use A/UX for?
  - kjs3 5y ago
    SCO Unix (or OpenDesktop or whatever they're calling it now) would be an example of a 'state of the art' x86 Unix before Linux matured. I, however, was always more fond of Dell Unix SVR4 for x86; a more 'pure' Unix. Install images are 'around'. It's new enough to be familiar and comes with a bunch of extras (like a pile of ported GNU tools). Interactive or Microport SVR3 are a little more old-skewl, if that's where you're at. Xenix is very old school, and shows you what you can to with very limited x86 hardware (esp Xenix for the 8086 or 80286), and you'll find a lot of tools you might want don't compile for various reasons (like a K&R C compiler). Other folks shipped an x86 SVR3 or SVR4, but they generally added very little to the AT&T code base. If you go the emulated route (e.g. SIMH), I'd go with BSD 4.3 or Sun SunOS 3.5. That's where I started out with Unix so there's a lot of nostalgia there.