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A/UX
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Agreed with Alk, it's one of those situations where it's best not to say anything, if that which you have to say isn't helpful in any way/shape/form.
Re: cost of unices. What I've noticed is that the best way to get a license to use a UNIX OS is actually to buy the vendor's support contract. I think the $1500/year contract is the only way to get AIX for example, and it's the best way to get SGI IRIX media. I'm sure the situation was the same for SunOS/Solaris back before they decided to do free hobbyist licensing.
Of course, in 1992/1993 when A/UX 3 was new, I'm sure that $800 wasn't really too much for A/UX, especially given it was a system on which you could do unix development and networking, as well as run standard Mac apps. Although the mac you'd run it on would cost a pretty penny (something like a Mac IIci or a Quadra 610, presumably would work fine) it would probably still cost less to get a mac and laserwriter with a/ux than to get a comparable Sun/SGI/IBM/Alpha (or whatever) box.
Re: cost of unices. What I've noticed is that the best way to get a license to use a UNIX OS is actually to buy the vendor's support contract. I think the $1500/year contract is the only way to get AIX for example, and it's the best way to get SGI IRIX media. I'm sure the situation was the same for SunOS/Solaris back before they decided to do free hobbyist licensing.
Of course, in 1992/1993 when A/UX 3 was new, I'm sure that $800 wasn't really too much for A/UX, especially given it was a system on which you could do unix development and networking, as well as run standard Mac apps. Although the mac you'd run it on would cost a pretty penny (something like a Mac IIci or a Quadra 610, presumably would work fine) it would probably still cost less to get a mac and laserwriter with a/ux than to get a comparable Sun/SGI/IBM/Alpha (or whatever) box.
MultiFinder
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Legally, no. You can't legally download it for free.
Would anyone really care if you did? Prolly not.
Unknown_K
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I try to have legit software when I can get it for my collection, just got stuffit expander deluxe 5.5 in the mail today (everyone pirates that).
I don't think Apple will hang you if they found out you had a pirate copy of A/UX (I don't think S Jobs cares about anything sold by Apple he had nothing to do with), but they will have a fit if you run a server distributing their old software and they find out(they have to).
Apple probably never released A/UX for free like they did OS 6.08,7.01,7.5.5 etc because they might not own all of it to release it. A/UX was a port of AT&T (at the time) UNIX so its not up to Apple to release it free.
I don't think Apple will hang you if they found out you had a pirate copy of A/UX (I don't think S Jobs cares about anything sold by Apple he had nothing to do with), but they will have a fit if you run a server distributing their old software and they find out(they have to).
Apple probably never released A/UX for free like they did OS 6.08,7.01,7.5.5 etc because they might not own all of it to release it. A/UX was a port of AT&T (at the time) UNIX so its not up to Apple to release it free.
Unknown_K
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Windows 2000 Server was the last version that had Appleshare support, just to let you know (its nice being able to get my old 68k and PPC machines to grab files natively from a Mac share on a Windows machine).
I have an AWS 95 with legit copies of A/UX 3.1, but the Win2k server is easier and more efficient to use (since I can dump my Amiga and PC files on the same server).
I have an AWS 95 with legit copies of A/UX 3.1, but the Win2k server is easier and more efficient to use (since I can dump my Amiga and PC files on the same server).
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