Today we present what may be the definitive page describing Apple's A/UX, at Applefritter.com.
"Perhaps you've heard of A/UX, Apple's version of UNIX for the original (Motorola 68K based) Macintoshes. You likely don't know much beyond the fact that it existed, however. It seems to be an enigmatic creature, the Sasquatch of operating systems. There's much heresay and speculation about it, and the rare person even claims to have seen a fuzzy glimpse of it long ago, but hard documentation of its biology and behavior is rather hard to come by."
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Archive for April of 2006
Sasquatch of Operating Systems
April 28, 2006Make Your Apple User-Friendly
April 26, 2006
This article by Karen Goeller McCullough originally appeared in COMPUTE! Issue 42 / November 1983 and is brought to you via Atarimagazines.com. It just proves that the definition of "User-Friendly" sure has changed over the years. A menu! Imagine that!
"With an Apple II and a disk drive, you can use this versatile utility program to create menus that call other programs – or you can merge it with your own multifunction programs to create an effective master menu.
If you have an Apple II with Applesoft BASIC and at least one disk drive, this handy utility can save time and prevent confusion by generating menu programs. All you do is tell the program the number of options on your menu and their names. From that information a BASIC program is generated which presents a nicely formatted display of the options, allows the entry of a selection, and checks it for validity."
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Make Your Apple User-Friendly
"With an Apple II and a disk drive, you can use this versatile utility program to create menus that call other programs – or you can merge it with your own multifunction programs to create an effective master menu.
If you have an Apple II with Applesoft BASIC and at least one disk drive, this handy utility can save time and prevent confusion by generating menu programs. All you do is tell the program the number of options on your menu and their names. From that information a BASIC program is generated which presents a nicely formatted display of the options, allows the entry of a selection, and checks it for validity."
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Make Your Apple User-Friendly
MacPaint Gallery
April 08, 2006
An interesting page at that great Apple history resource, Folklore.org by Andy Hertzfeld. Presented is a gallery of Susan Kare's MacPaint art from 1983. The intro:
"Bill Atkinson began writing MacPaint in February 1983, just after Susan Kare joined the Mac team to design bitmaps for fonts and icons. Susan became one of the first and most accomplished users of MacPaint, trying out new features as they were developed and using it for a wide range of practical applications.
Susan kept a notebook of many of the MacPaint documents that she created as the Mac team struggled to finish the Macintosh throughout 1983. They provide an interesting glimpse of the daily life of the Mac team during that period. I'm pleased to be able to present scans her beautiful drawings here as part of Macintosh Folklore."
MacPaint Gallery at Folklore.org
"Bill Atkinson began writing MacPaint in February 1983, just after Susan Kare joined the Mac team to design bitmaps for fonts and icons. Susan became one of the first and most accomplished users of MacPaint, trying out new features as they were developed and using it for a wide range of practical applications.
Susan kept a notebook of many of the MacPaint documents that she created as the Mac team struggled to finish the Macintosh throughout 1983. They provide an interesting glimpse of the daily life of the Mac team during that period. I'm pleased to be able to present scans her beautiful drawings here as part of Macintosh Folklore."
MacPaint Gallery at Folklore.org
