From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: usotsuki at buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 17:22:32 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Apple IIe Unix?
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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2011261721230.11502@sd-119843.dedibox.fr>

On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Will Senn wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> So, I'm about to get my very own Apple IIe and while it's an incredibly 
> versatile machine for assembly language and hardware hackery, I'm not aware 
> of any Unices that run on the machine, natively. Does anybody know of any 
> from back in the day?
>
> It's got a 65c02 processor and somewhere around 128k of RAM, but it's also 
> pretty expandable w/7 slots and a huge amount of literature about how to do 
> stuff w/those slots.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
>
>

Big problem is there's no easy way to do preemptive multitasking without 
extra hardware.

The Apple //e and //c are basically the machine I cut my teeth on.

-uso.