News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s. Parent comment

Re:Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s by kjs3 on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:07PM (#48797957)
It's been a long time, but I'm pretty sure A/UX didn't use any of the toolbox roms and had it's own drivers (we had the source). A/UX booted from a MacOS partition because the Mac bootloader only understood booting MacOS (and it wasn't writeable with new boot code), so you booted to MacOS, then started SASH, which loaded Unix.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s by classichasclass on Sunday July 05, 2026 @05:09PM (#48797967)
That's exactly the reason. NetBSD uses its own booter for the same purpose, for example.
[ Parent | on HN ]