At 03:26 PM 6/8/98 -0400, 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)?
>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 played with A/UX 2.something a while back, don't remember it much (it was
like in 5 years ago, I was 11 at the time I think).  It was pretty cool but
a little slow.  You could actually run MacOS binaries (system 6) on top of
A/UX, it had an interesting MacOS-like GUI but also supported X11.  I don't
remember much about the booter though, I think there was a control panel
that allowed you to choose which OS to boot and there might have been an
extension.

Kevin