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UX 3.0: Apple’s first Unix OS">A/UX 3.0: Apple’s first Unix OS
By Nick Hodge | August 22, 2006
History revisionists state that Apple had to buy NeXT as they could not write their own pre-emptive/protected memory OS.
Apple A/UX 3.0 integrated the best of System 7 and Unix. Maybe not the latest Unix available at that time, nor on the fastest hardware; nor with the best driver support. But it rocked for its time.
From memory, Apple needed to created A/UX to permit their hardware to be sold as “POSIX” compliant to US DoD. With more internal, less “not-invented-here” thinking — the need to have a bogus OS (Copland) and the ultimate reverse take-over by NeXT could have been avoided.
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