A/UX

A / UX (Apple Unix) was a commercial Unix operating system developed by Apple and is designed to produce under the Apple Macintosh user interface a user-friendly access to the Unix world.

History

Based on System V Release 2 ( partially 4.2BSD ), A / UX was developed in the late 1980s and 1988 first placed on the market. Later, the code base was converted to the more current versions of UNIX System V and BSD incorporated parts of the system with a.

Designed as a POSIX - compatible operating system, it reached full Unix functionality. But the main feature of A / UX was the combination of these capabilities with the then Macintosh operating system is Mac OS System 6 and System 7 later so it was possible to simultaneously execute on a computer Macintosh and Unix applications. The Unix processes running with preemptive multitasking, while the Macintosh applications still used cooperative multitasking.

Since A / UX was unable to obtain market significance, further development was discontinued in 1995. With Mac OS X follows Apple since 2000, but again the tradition of the Unix derivatives.

Features

Supported computers based on the Motorola 68000 family, from Macintosh II with extended PMMU. The graphical interface X11 and Mac OS, which was required as the operating system for the boot loader, were part of the package.

A major advantage of A / UX over other Unix systems consisted in a very simplified installation process, the so-called one-click installation.

Version History

  • Operating system from Apple
  • UNIX Operating System
  • Proprietary software
  • Historic software
  • Abbreviation
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