Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
zdw
61 points
24 comments
July 05, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (4 comments)
yjftsjthsd-h
> To start off the install, we begin with the “System setup and README” disk. We need to partition the disk, and then do something counter-intuitive: install System 6 on a Mac partition. This is because there’s a Mac application that kicks off the A/UX boot process: SASH; the A/UX standalone shell. This ‘pre-boot environment’ allows for launching an A/UX kernel and also some disk and recovery operations. Funny how that rhythms with having a macOS install next to Asahi Linux. The more things change:) Also, swapping through 26 floppies to install would have been... Something.
latchkey
there will always be a special place in my heart for a/ux. i ported a lot of open source software to it. ran a bbs, cu-seeme server, gopherd, httpd, and many other early internet services on it. this really gave me an early taste for what the internet would become.
anthk
I wonder if Nethack 3.4.3 or Slashem 0.8 could build on a recent version of A/UX...
baron3dl
I picked up an SE/30 at the MIT flea (SwapFest) in 1999, hell bent on running A/UX on it. Never even got an installer disk image to boot.