At 4:10 12/17/95, Erik Bertelsen wrote:

>A question out of ignorance: Does (did?) AUX boot natively or from a
>running Mac OS? Is there anything to learn from AUX with regard to booting
>a Unix system on Macintosh hardware?

A/UX starts from a minimal System 6 and in later versions, System 7 MacOS.
The A/UX Startup program is a minimal UNIX shell environment that you can
run a variety of stand-alone programs in (fsck, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir,
etc.). Quite useful for recovering a partly blasted system. The "launch"
command, in this environment, loads and jumps into the A/UX kernel, which
then blows the previous system completely away.

Erik Fair