68k predacessor to Mac OS X???
Its was called A/UX and it was probably the coolest os ever created for the 68k macs. I beleive it was apple's first OS to ship on a cd, way back in 1993.
It worked with most 030 and 040 machines and provided an xwindows server along with a 24 bit AND a 32 bit mac os environment. Such a cool os that could have made the Mac OS far superior to anything else.Its too bad that it was killed because apple Didn't want to bother with writing a ppc version.
check here for more info
<a href="http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html" target="_blank">Applefritter's A/UX page</a>
It worked with most 030 and 040 machines and provided an xwindows server along with a 24 bit AND a 32 bit mac os environment. Such a cool os that could have made the Mac OS far superior to anything else.Its too bad that it was killed because apple Didn't want to bother with writing a ppc version.
check here for more info
<a href="http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html" target="_blank">Applefritter's A/UX page</a>
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The original NeXT OS ran on an expensive cube-shaped computer, which shipped with no floppy drive, using a Motorola 68K processor. So, NeXT has been ported from 68K to Intel to PowerPC on its road to becoming Mac OS X.
Steve's vision seems to be rather repetitive, in hindsight.
The original NeXT OS ran on an expensive cube-shaped computer, which shipped with no floppy drive, using a Motorola 68K processor. So, NeXT has been ported from 68K to Intel to PowerPC on its road to becoming Mac OS X.
Steve's vision seems to be rather repetitive, in hindsight.
There's still a lot of NeXT's OS lying around under the hood of OS X.
<strong>And the whole Copland fiasco/NeXT takeover wouldn't have happened at all if the original System 1 had been based on the Lisa kernel. Lisa was preemptively multitasking with protected memory, but when the Mac was being designed it was intended to be the Lisa's little brother, and wasn't given the RAM to handle the Lisa's architecture. If the first Mac had had a few more K of RAM we might have had a modern OS from the very beginning.</strong><hr></blockquote>
If were going back that far, If Woz had has a few extra $$ he could have used Intel chips in the Apple 1 instead of the cheaper Motorola's
Was Copland able to run on a 68k? Mac OS 8.1 was the last official Mac OS release to run on one, but who knows about unreleased stuff.