I've thought about MAE many times while running ShapeShifter. According to Christian Bauer, the author of ShapeShifter, MacOS and the Mac ROMs were practically written to make abstraction as straightforward as possible.
Considering how wonderful and usable the GUI of classic MacOS is, I think it's a shame that the GUI was never properly abstracted enough to be used in a Unix environment by itself, but between work already done in MAE, ShapeShifter and A/UX, I wonder if it could still be a thing some day...
Considering how wonderful and usable the GUI of classic MacOS is, I think it's a shame that the GUI was never properly abstracted enough to be used in a Unix environment by itself, but between work already done in MAE, ShapeShifter and A/UX, I wonder if it could still be a thing some day...