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Apple once built its own UNIX — long before macOS. In this second part of my A/UX journey on the Mac SE/30, we’ll explore what it was like to actually use Apple’s forgotten UNIX variant: • How compatible was A/UX 2.0 with classic Macintosh apps? • How did Apple make the UNIX shell approachable for GUI-first users? • Recovering from a nasty in.routed boot hang — via single-user mode • Building a multi-boot setup with System 6, System 7, and A/UX • And where A/UX fits into Apple’s bigger UNIX story If you missed Part 1, check it out first for the full installation process. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 01:12 Application Compatibility 02:18 The Built-in Macintosh Runtime Environment 03:55 COMMANDO - Briding The CLI To GUI-first Users 05:51 Accessing The Macintosh Partition 06:24 MacX - The A/UX X11 Environment 07:32 Enabling Networking Support 10:09 Getting Into Single-User Mode 12:56 Multi-Boot To Avoid Compability Traps 15:18 Conclusion 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Balint Szy Cecil Clank Elinars Feldi GrayT! heyday478 HMK Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal John DiLiberto Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety MS-DOS Manfred Steven Glogger Tim Hull Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Zen the Fox Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: A/UX, General Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/UX https://betawiki.net/wiki/A/UX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UniSoft https://wiki.preterhuman.net/Newbie_Guide_To_A/UX_(Apple_UNIX) https://www.aux-penelope.com/ https://archive.org/search?query=apple+unix&page=2 A/UX FAQ (Mirrors) http://ftpmirror.your.org/pub/misc/jagubox/%252Fwww.html https://web.archive.org/web/19980713140351/http://jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov/aux/Info/FAQ.aux.201 A/UX Manuals and User Guides: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/ http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/aux_2.0/030-0754-A_AUX_Installation_Guide_1990.pdf A/UX box art (custom/fan made): https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/wh6euu/aux_in_a_box/ #Tech Deep Dives Macintosh Startup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_startup https://lowendmac.com/oldmac/compact3.html Single-user mode: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/aux_2.0/030-0762-A_AUX_Local_System_Administration_1990.pdf init command: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/aux_2.0/030-0779_AUX_System_Administrators_Reference_Sections_1M_7_8_1990.pdf in.routed & RIP information: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/mac/a_ux/aux_2.0/030-0779_AUX_System_Administrators_Reference_Sections_1M_7_8_1990.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Routing_Information_Protocol Other Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Application_Environment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Picker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP