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0 pointsderefr1mo ago0 comments

What did Xenix did that was so distinctive?

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rbanffy1mo ago· 2 in thread

It was a Unix. I believe the distinctive feature is not what it did, but what it didn’t - crash often.

There was another unix on the Lisa, i'd tell you more but there's literally nothing online about it and the only guy with copies of it hasn't responded to my letter. The company that made it dumped their Lisa unix stuff on him when they went bust because he sold lisa related stuff. Other than that tidbit of info, I haven't found anything online about it

AlexTheCat1231mo ago

That "other unix" is probably UniPlus Unix, which we actually do have copies of, as well as its source code. It runs great on the FPGA-based Lisa too.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/arcanebyte/uniplus

And here are the disk images, although I think you need to be logged in to download them: https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,103.0.html

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