27 Nov
2020
27 Nov
'20
5:22 a.m.
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?
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?
-Jason