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Re: Unixisms on top of P8?

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 12:04:56 AM UTC-6, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> I'm starting to wonder if it might actually be possible to build a 
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> Unix-like environment - I mean Bourne shell and the whole nine yards - on 
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> a //e...maybe not multitasking though...using cc65 or some other 
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> compiler...
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> 
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> I do have source for a number of Unix-compatible command line utilities, 
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> though being a lot of these are derived from Solaris and BSD they might be 
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> too big.  Still, might be interesting.
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> 
> -uso.

There's also Xinu, which is a Unix like operating system for the Apple II. David Finnigan had proposed trying to fix some kind of problems with Xinu, back in 09. If you're interested you can find the discussion here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topicsearchin/comp.sys.apple2.programmer/xinu/comp.sys.apple2.programmer/FMsq5Fbc2ZU