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Subject: Re: other miniunices?
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In article <6kfd5t$pfd$1@news.ox.ac.uk>, linc0228@sable.ox.ac.uk (Alister Whitford) writes:
>Paul Hughett <hughett@chaplin.med.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>Wouter Hobers (xaviar@fmf.ml.org) wrote:
>>: There is Lunix (note the way you spell it). It should run fine on a C64,
>>: but I don't know about the Plus/4.
>>
>>Actually, it is Linux (after Linus Torvalds, who is the guy who wrote most
>>of it), which will run on a 386 or better.  I don't know about the
>>Commodore, though I vaguely remember that it used some now-obscure chip,
>>in which case it is most unlikely that Linux will support it.  For more
>>info, try comp.os.linux.* or www.redhat.com.  (There are other sources;
>>those are just the two best engraved in my memory and will probably lead
>>you to all the others.)
>
>A thousand people will correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole
>point was that it is *not* Linux but an OS called Lunix - hence the words
>"note the way you spell it"...
>
>Alister


Alister is correct.  There is an operating system called LUnix
(Little Unix) for the Commodore.  It was written by Daniel Dallmann.
See http://hld.c64.org/poldi/lunix/lun_about.html

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Jeff Beckmann
