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This was one of the most important OSs in my life, for a number of reasons.

Please don't be so humble Jim! Anyone who is reading this should realize that Jim was the backbone of A/UX. He created and maintained the infamous A/UX FAQ. If it wasn't for him, this system would have been completely useless. He really brought light to this operating system.

It was also super important in my life as well. I had a Quadra 950 beast of a machine in college (I named it: dolphin) and taught myself quite a bit of C by porting existing open source software to it (which Jim listed in his FAQ).

I ran all sorts of social services on it... BBS', gopher, finger, cu-seeme and most importantly... early ncsa and apache httpd. I really got to connect with a lot of people on the early 90's internet this way and it shaped my life to this day.

Thanks for being there for A/UX! Proud to still maintain a mirror of jagubox on the Gopher server, and my clock-chipped Q800 runs it splendidly.

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/1/archive/jagubox-gsfc-nasa-gov-aux

Thank you for everything you did to support A/UX! jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov will be forever burned into my memory.

Absolutely for ever. All the security updates, software updates, third party everything. Jimjag is the real deal. I had a pair of Quadra 950s, one running Apple share, and the other with the SCSI Card running A/UX. ( 2x4x240M ). Without his through amount of patches, and supplements, A/UX would have been much harder, despite all the documentation. I could xTerm from any machine in my house into my A/UX server. Thanks Jim. Thanks for your archive.

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Thank you everyone for the kind words

oh my! same here, and more importantly it was thanks to you! thank you sir.

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