18 Sep
2017
18 Sep
'17
12:07 a.m.
On 09/17/2017 01:27 PM, David wrote:
What a pain, almost like Unix, and not quite. l It was
a clone of Unix for the 68k. The APIs were ever so slightly different because the authors
were concerned about copyright infringement. libc calls had different argument orders or
types and in general it was just off enough that you wanted to claw at the screen every
time something went wrong.
To top it off, the system we were hosting it on was so slow that a full rebuild of our
meager (10k lines) software took overnight.
I eventually ported all the software to a SparcStation-2 cross compiling to the 68k
target we were embedded on.
> To kick a more relevant thread off, what was the "weirdest" Unix system you
used & why? Could be an emulation like Eunice, could be the hardware e.g NULL was not
zero, NUXI byte ordering etc.
>
> Cheers, Warren
Mach Ten ... this weird BSD thing that runs on top of Classic Mac OS. I
actually have a minivmac image on my Linux box that it boots and runs on!
I used it as my "UNIX workstation" Until I finally got my hands on a
Sparc in the late '90's.
- Derrik
Derrik Walker v2.0, RHCE
dwalker(a)doomd.net
"Those UNIX guys, they think weird!" -- John C. Dvorak