At 12:26 PM -0700 6/8/98, Nathan Raymond wrote:
>On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Erik E. Fair wrote:
>
>> A/UX starts up the same way that NetBSD/mac68k does - by starting MacOS
>>first.
>
>D'oh!  I never managed to get any first-hand experience with A/UX,
>unfortunately.  I'm really suprised - seems a dumb way to do it.  Is my
>impression correct that after A/UX boots MacOS applications run on top of
>A/UX (not like MachTen where a MacOS app runs as a peer to MachTen)?

That's correct.  If i remember correctly the real issue is that there is an
application named Start A/UX or some such which is where things really
start to happen.  It's a single-user version of unix, bundled as a MacOS
application.  Normally it just functions like our booter, but you can also
use it to do maintenance like fsck's and formatting.

>Does A/UX have a booter, or an extension?  (Apple should make A/UX a free
>unsupported download now, I'd love to play with it... :)

I know some of the real experts on comp.unix.aux tried to get access to it
a while ago.  Don't know what the current situation is.

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