[TUHS] Apple IIe Unix?
Steve Nickolas
usotsuki at buric.co
Fri Nov 27 13:18:47 AEST 2020
On Thu, 26 Nov 2020, jason-tuhs at shalott.net wrote:
>> of any Unices that run on the machine, natively. Does anybody know of any
>> from back in the day?
>
> I don't think there are any for the 8-bit Apple IIs, but for the 16-bit Apple
> IIgs, there's GNO/ME unix: http://www.gno.org/gno/
>
> I actually ran this on my IIgs; it was cute, and quite usable considering the
> limitations of the hardware. I don't know anything about its provenance,
> though.
>
> Anyone else run GNO/ME? Anyone know if it was based on some previous source
> base or distribution? Or know the folks behind it?
I know that a lot of the code bears the 4-clause BSD license. So maybe
it's based on 4.4BSD, but with some parts rewritten?
-uso.
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