Re: What's "gno"?

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

"Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message 
news:e1kuk7$2tde$1@merope.saaf.se...
>>> GNO is a UNIX-like software package for the Apple IIgs, which runs on 
>>> top
>>> of the native operating system, GS/OS.
>
> Interesting --- but what's the difference between GNO and Anix?  OK, GNO 
> runs
> on top of GS/OS while Anix ran on top of Apple DOS 3.3.  Any other 
> differences?

Since nobody appears to have mentioned it...

The name GNO was a play on GNU from the Unix world. GNU is a recursive 
acronym which stands for "GNU's Not Unix". So GNO stands for "GNO's Not 
Orca" (the Orca shell arguably being the major development shell for the 
IIgs until that point).

-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)