Mach kernel and Unix over 68k

Joe Altman fj at panix.com
Sun Nov 20 02:58:33 GMT 2005


On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +0000, freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote:
>
>   28. [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X
>       (Roland Smith)
>
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:47:13 +0100
> From: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>
> Subject: [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X
> 
> Apple had its own UNIX running on 68k hardware since 1998: A/UX. See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX

I think since at least 1988; Panix was around '89, using A/UX on a
machine in NYC.

If I recall the legend correctly, it was a single machine in someone's
basement.

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