Editing Apple Attachment Unit Interface (section)

{{Short description|Apple version of the standard Ethernet connection}}
{{morefootnotes|date=November 2021}}

[[Image:Apple_AAUI_transceiver_and_cable.jpg|thumb|right|300px|AAUI transceiver for [[10BASE2]] with cable]]
[[Image:Asante-aaui.jpg|thumb|right|300px|AAUI transceiver for [[10BASE-T]]]]
[[Image:AAUI examples.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Two AAUI 10BASE2/10BASE-T combo transceivers (Linksys MACT2T and LL8-LEENET-C) and an AAUI dual 10BASE-T transceiver that is actually a three-port hub (Farallon)]]

'''Apple Attachment Unit Interface''' ('''AAUI''') is a mechanical re-design by [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] of the standard [[Attachment Unit Interface]] (AUI) used to connect computer equipment to [[Ethernet]].<ref name="IW13I1">{{cite magazine |last=Lee|first=Yvonne|date=January 7, 1991|title=Apple Moves to Ethernet For Standard Networking|magazine=InfoWorld|publisher= IDG|issn=0199-6649|volume=13|number=1|pages=1, 8}}</ref>{{rp|1}} The AUI was popular in the era before the dominance of [[10BASE-T]] networking that started in the early 1990s; the AAUI was an attempt to make the connector much smaller and more user friendly,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hanson |first1=Larry |title=Everything you wanted to know about the Mac |year=1993 |publisher=Hayden |isbn=1568300581 |page=977 |url=https://archive.org/details/mac_Everything_You_Wanted_To_Know_About_The_Mac_1993 |access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref> though the proprietary nature of the interface was also criticized.<ref name="IW13I1" />{{rp|8}}