Last Updated on: 29th November 2024, 11:05 am
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Origin: USA
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: Finder, X Window System
Architecture: Motorola 68000
Based on: Unix
Wikipedia: A/UX
Media: Install
The last version | Released: 3.1.1 | May 1995
A/UX (Apple Unix) — a version of Unix created by Apple.
The system was first released in 1988, and last in 1995. A/UX ran on Macintosh with M68000 processor, it was not ported to PowerPC platform.
The first release was based on System V Release 2, but introduced several solutions from BSD (including sockets).
The system required 2 Mb of RAM for each connecting user (max. 1+2 remote) and PMMU chips. Version 1.1 won BYTE magazine’s Excellence award in 1989.
The system was POSIX compliant. It was distributed with two graphical interfaces: with Finder (used in classic Mac OS) and with X Window.
A/UX is based on AT&T Unix System V.2.2 with numerous extensions from V.3, V.4 (such as streams) and BSD 4.2/4.3 (such as networking, the Fast File System, job control, lpr, NFS with Yellow Pages, SCCS and sendmail 5.64). It also provides full POSIX compliance. A/UX provides SYSV, BSD and POSIX compatibility switches and libraries. A/UX is fully compilant with the System V Interface Definition (SVID).
A/UX provides all three standard shells: sh, csh and ksh. X-Windows is also provided standard.
A/UX 3.x.x incorporates System 7 for the Macintosh allowing for the use of the vast majority of Macintosh applications under A/UX. System7 and Unix and fully integrated under A/UX 3.x.x with the Unix file system being seen as a disk drive by the Finder.
