The install media, including installation boot floppyĪs far as I can tell the installation will wipe everything off your drive.The Mac IIcx is the first machine I’ve had that I can try it out on (I have another 68K Mac, an LC 475 – but sadly it was never supported by A/UX). I’ve had a play with it before, but it’s not quite the same experience and I always seemed to have issues with the mouse emulation so it was never much fun. You can run A/UX under an emulator named Shoebill, which does a terrific job – but has some limitations (notably no sound). What I find most fascinating about it is that it came out during a period where Apple desperately needed a new OS (see “Pink”, Copland, Star Trek, etc), but it seemed to never get any traction internally within Apple. As a result it never took off, although admittedly it was expensive and for it’s day had quite high system requirements (I’m told it shines on 16MB+ machines, but this was in a time when 4MB was the norm and 8MB luxury). ![]() ![]() A little bit like OS X is today, or certainly Blue Box/Classic was under Rhapsody/OS X. Now that my Mac IIcx is working fairly well, I decided it was time to install A/UX.Ī/UX is Apple’s Unix and it’s a bit of an oddity it can run System 7 apps out of the box.
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