[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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