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

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Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
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A tech enthusiast successfully emulated Apple's vintage A/UX operating system using the Snow emulator. The project involved archiving rare floppy disk media and implementing specific hardware support to run the software on vintage Macintosh configurations.

Recently, I have been successful in making A/UX boot and run stable on my vintage Macintosh emulator; Snow . A/UX was Apple’s version of UNIX that ran on the 68k-based series Macs. It required a Memory Management Unit to achieve process isolation; either the optional 68851 PMMU on the original 68020-based Macintosh II or the integrated MMU in the 68030- and 68040-based machines. It also required an FPU; making it only run on the higher end machines such as the Macintosh II series and later the Quadra, but the LC was out of luck. A/UX Penelope is a nice resource on A/UX compatibility info.

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