A/UX
A/UX is Apple Computer's implementation of the Unix
operating system for some of their Macintosh computers, the
latest versions running on the Mac II, Quadra and Centris
series of machines.
The system is based on System V.2.2 with features of V.3 and V.4 and
BSD 4.2 and 4.3. It is POSIX and System V Interface Definition
(SVID) compliant.
A/UX has the Macintosh operating system
Mac OS version 7.0.1 running on top of it, so the user
is virtually using a normal Macintosh, with the familiar
Finder graphical user interface and
applications. An X Window System server application or a terminal
program may be used to interface with the underlying Unix-system.
Alternatively the user may choose to run a full X11R4 session, without
the Finder.
Unfortunately for A/UX fans, the Unix niche was a costly business in the early 1990s. A/UX was never ported to PowerPC Macintoshes, and Apple all but abandoned it by 1994. As Steve Jobs returned to Apple later on, the future of Mac OS would end up truer to NeXTSTEP than to the old Mac or traditional Unix.
Referenced By
AT&T Unix | Apple Computer | Apple Computer Co. | Apple Computers | Intermedia | List of Unix user groups | List of operating systems | Operating systems timeline | System 5 | System V | UNIX | Unices | Unixes
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