From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: usotsuki at buric.co (Steve Nickolas) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 22:16:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Apple IIe Unix? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, Clem Cole wrote: > My favorite 8-bit processor, maybe my favorite all around. Ditto. > Running a full UNIX on it was not really possible although a few of the > Unix style utilities were moved to it and a number of simple monitors were > written that swapped programs in and out DOS style. At one time, I had a > fairly good version of the Bourne (V7) syntax shell we got running, but it > had to be swapped in and out slowly. That is; you run the shell, type a > command, when exec is done, the shell is tossed out and the new program > installed in memory. One would have better luck with the Apple IIgs except I don't think there's a good free C compiler for 65816. There's GNO which is very BSD, but obviously cut back for the necessity of running on top of GS/OS (and the shell is written in asm, it's not a true Bourne shell AFAIK). -uso.