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Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s

Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s

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  • yjftsjthsd-h
    > To start off the install, we begin with the “System setup and README” disk. We need to partition the disk, and then do something counter-intuitive: install System 6 on a Mac partition. This is because there’s a Mac application that kicks off the A/UX boot process: SASH; the A/UX standalone shell. This ‘pre-boot environment’ allows for launching an A/UX kernel and also some disk and recovery operations.Funny how that rhythms with having a macOS install next to Asahi Linux. The more things change:)Also, swapping through 26 floppies to install would have been... Something.
  • baron3dl
    I picked up an SE/30 at the MIT flea (SwapFest) in 1999, hell bent on running A/UX on it. Never even got an installer disk image to boot.
  • latchkey
    there will always be a special place in my heart for a/ux. i ported a lot of open source software to it. ran a bbs, cu-seeme server, gopherd, httpd, and many other early internet services on it. this really gave me an early taste for what the internet would become.
  • anthk
    I wonder if Nethack 3.4.3 or Slashem 0.8 could build on a recent version of A/UX...