[TUHS] Apple IIe Unix?

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Fri Nov 27 08:22:32 AEST 2020


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.


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