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> Not many were sold, and yet the ANS group was still profitable. Profitability isn't sufficient for a company like Apple. It has to be the best use of these r
by acchow 4y ago
> Not many were sold, and yet the ANS group was still profitable.
Profitability isn't sufficient for a company like Apple. It has to be the best use of these resources - it needs to be more profitable than dedicating the team to work on something else at Apple.
- Maursault 4y agoI don't think that was it. Jobs wouldn't tolerate any other UNIX at Apple except NeXTSTEP. He killed A/UX while still in negotiations for Apple to purchase NeXT. I don't even think Apple worked on those versions of AIX. IBM likely provided it under contract. ANS only ever ran AIX and NetBSD.
- fzzzy 4y agoA/UX never ran on powerpc so it was pretty dead by that point already.