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Whats the future of A/UX with the PowerMacs?

April 26, 2017future powermacs UX

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Whats the future of A/UX with the PowerMacs?

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Don’t ask…really, don’t ask! Okay, if you insist. It ain’t happy…. There is none. Apple has dropped A/UX totally. Apple chose to run AIX on its early PowerPC-based servers, which couldn’t be confused with A/UX by a dead halibut. Apple, however, has provided great support in porting Linux to the Nubus-based PowerMacs. This OS, MkLinux, was made available in “golden release” form around September 1996. You can learn more by checking out [132]mklinux.apple.com. Apple ceased its dalliance with Linux not long after this release, and MkLinux should not be seriously considered by anyone wanting a Unix on a PowerMac. Apple’s recent direction has taken it to yet another processor family, the x86. No, A/UX will not be ported to it, either. MacOS X runs quite well on it, though. As a sort of “spiritual descendant” of A/UX, that’s probably more than we could hope for anyway.