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Interesting, and sounds quite plausible. Perhaps they could have replaced the GUI with a X window lookalike instead of trying to brute force the old OS.
by mixmastamyk 2y ago
Interesting, and sounds quite plausible. Perhaps they could have replaced the GUI with a X window lookalike instead of trying to brute force the old OS.
- lproven 2y agoThat is what the Apple/NeXT combined company did, of course. Rhapsody showed it well. http://toastytech.com/guis/rhap.html http://toastytech.com/guis/rhap.html And there's some description of the emulation nanokernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_nanokernel But in its way OS X was much more of a clean break: a whole new OS, ported to the old hardware, tweaked to understand filesystems and file formats and given a shallow cosmetic resemblance. A/UX was a much tighter integrated system. Some of the OS functionality was provided by actual classic MacOS. What was left, if that was removed, was a fairly unremarkable Unix for its time. You could even boot it in a sort of vanilla-Unix form. You can compare and contrast here: https://www.aux-penelope.com/screenshots.htm https://www.aux-penelope.com/screenshots.htm E.g. for v3, top 2 rows (pics 1-6) are in Mac mode, bottom row (7-9) are in Unix mode. A bit like the ANS with AIX, there's little to appeal to Apple users here: https://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/aix.html https://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ans/aix.html