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This is so neat! There was a list entry for a Xenix HD image, I'd love to see that in action.
by Cockbrand 5mo ago
This is so neat! There was a list entry for a Xenix HD image, I'd love to see that in action.
- rbanffy 5mo agoXenix is the best operating system Microsoft ever shipped, but they gave up on it because there was no way they could use their PC leverage to corner the Unix market.
- derefr 5mo agoWhat did Xenix did that was so distinctive?
- rbanffy 5mo agoIt was a Unix. I believe the distinctive feature is not what it did, but what it didn’t - crash often.
- mghackerlady 5mo agoThere 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
- AlexTheCat123 5mo agoThat "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 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 https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,103.0.html
- mghackerlady 5mo agoHow did I manage to miss that
- AlexTheCat123 5mo agoTo be fair, the disk images are actually pretty tough to find. There've been a few times where I've spent a while looking for them because I lost the files on my computer and forgot where they were online. And that page isn't indexed on Google, so you really need to know where to look.