By now regular readers of this blog are quite familiar with my affection for the 1996 Apple Network Server, Apple's Unix-through-and-through $10,000+ server that only shipped with, and only officially ran, Harpoon, its unique superset of IBM AIX. An ANS 500, the lower tier of this dorm fridge-sized computer, was the first server I ever personally owned, a nearly-new hand-me-down after Steve Jobs convinced Gil Amelio to cancel the machine and the bookstore's vendor at the University I worked for wouldn't support it anymore. There are several fascinating features present in Harpoon that were never implemented in any other Apple...