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We were demo'ing the recently created Commodore 64 port of PoP at MGC. It was funny to hear people say, "I used to play this on my Commodore" (No, you didn't.)

• unimpressive 15y ago
  In a similar vein someone once told me that they'd ran Unix on a TRS-80. (In case you don't know, older *nixes required a mainframe to get running.) The TRS-80 ran a BASIC prompt.
  • bodyfour 15y ago
    I don't know if you're just trolling or not. There were UNIXes that ran on desktop hardware as far back as the early 80s. In particular, the certain TRS-80 models were sold with Xenix -- a port of UNIX that Microsoft did which later was passed on to SCO (the original company in Santa Cruz, not to be confused with the notorious Utah company that ended up owning the name)
    • unimpressive 15y ago
      I stand corrected then. I was under the impression that nix was a hog until the 90's. The place I read that from probably was trolling. (Then again, IIRC the original V6 source code was 10K or so lines, which doesn't really match up with that statement. (That it was a hog.) I figured it was just written in a way that needed lots of memory.) Thanks by the way. Filling little gaps in my knowledge like that is always a treat.
      • brazzy 15y ago
        Unix was a success exactly because it wasn't a hog and didn't require a mainframe. Instead it could run on PDP minicomputers (small and cheap at the time, they cost only $100k and were only as large as a small car).
  • gaius 15y ago
    OS/9 is Unix-like and ran on the CoCo (and Dragon, if you're in the UK).
    • ezy 15y ago
      I remember OS/9 fondly. It was my first introduction to a "real" operating system (e.g. not just BASIC and a program loader). Oh, and preemptive multitasking! Whoa... :-)
• richardw 15y ago
  Maybe they were thinking of the Commodore Amiga version, which is the only version I ever saw.