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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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