Basal Gangster - A/UX: The Long View (2010)
Why didn't Apple's Unix-based A/UX become the Mac OS of the future?
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Show Notes
Why didn’t Apple’s Unix-based A/UX become the Mac OS of the future?
Original text by Basal Gangster.
UniSoft mentions A/UX exactly once in the darker recesses of its website.
A/UX 1.0 demo on the Computer Chronicles, 1989. Demo starts at ~19 minutes.
Watch the announcement of Carbon at WWDC 1998. Sean Parent describes how Carbon almost didn’t happen, a classic case of sticking to your guns until Steve Jobs adopts your idea.
The fight over multiuser features and authentication requirements for Mac OS X as told by Avie Tevanian and (separately) Steve Jobs.
Bill Warner tells his story about founding Avid and switching from Apollo workstations to the Macintosh. Individual parts: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (the Mac part). Cropped 16:9 in one piece. Watch Bill Warner demonstrate the Avid/1 Media Composer on a Macintosh II in 1989 for an Avid promo tape and for WBZ TV Massachusetts.