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Also interesting: PunixOS, a sadly-dead project to port 4.4BSD to Motorola 68k calculators like the TI-89. Not just a Unix-alike, but a Real Unix (tm), with pre
by dTal 7y ago
Also interesting: PunixOS, a sadly-dead project to port 4.4BSD to Motorola 68k calculators like the TI-89. Not just a Unix-alike, but a Real Unix (tm), with pre-emptive multitasking and everything.
http://punix-os.blogspot.com/ http://punix-os.blogspot.com/
- fsiefken 7y agointeresting, seems similar to fuzix http://www.fuzix.org/ http://www.fuzix.org/
- msla 7y ago> Not just a Unix-alike, but a Real Unix (tm), Not unless they paid The Open Group to use the very real Unix trademark. There's a part of zOS that's Real Unix (tm) and FreeBSD is not, so can we give it a rest?
- kick 7y agoFreeBSD and 4.4 BSD are not the same thing. You seem bitter. Why are you bitter about something like that?
- msla 7y agoFreeBSD is the modern 4.4BSD descendant.
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- boring_twenties 7y agoNo one gives a shit about the Open Group's trademark. Seriously. 4.4BSD (unlike FreeBSD, or 4.4BSD-Lite(2)) contains proprietary code from AT&T Unix, therefore it's Unix in most people's eyes.
- msla 7y ago> 4.4BSD (unlike FreeBSD, or 4.4BSD-Lite(2)) contains proprietary code from AT&T Unix Only three files had to be removed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc.....
- boring_twenties 7y ago> and 70 modified to show USL copyright notices
- cr0sh 7y agoI was about to post about the TI-92+ not getting any love, saw this, got happy, then saw it dead...sad again. Oh well. :)
- dang 7y agoCan you email hn@ycombinator.com so we can send you an invite to post that? Invited posts go into in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380).
- msla 7y agoYou're only a Real Unix (tm) if you pay for a license.