[TUHS] Apple IIe Unix?

[dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> > I would start with something like Mini-Unix
>
> MINI-UNIX would be a good place to start if one wanted to bring up a 
> system on a machine without memory management; there's nothing in the 
> kernel which is PDP-11 dependent that I can think of (unlike V6, which 
> had a fairly heavy dependency on the PDP-11 memory management hardware - 
> although one could of course rip that all out, as MINI-UNIX did).

Yeah, that's why I suggested it; I did play with it on one those PDT 
thingies some decades ago (just to see if I could; the thing was on loan).

> However, one's still looking at a fair amount of work, both to get rid 
> of any traces of PDP-11isms (e.g. stack growth direction), and translate 
> the assembler part (startup, and access to non-C operations). Something 
> like FUZIX might be an easier option.

Hadn't heard of FUZIX, but after looking at the web page then I concur; 
I'll keep it in mind should I ever get a tiny machine :-)  I did have a 
fine collections of Microbees (Aussie Z-80 box) once, but they're long 
gone, along with enough bits to make an Applix 1616 (Aussie 68000 box).

-- Dave