Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!saa33413
From: saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: UNIX on the Apple II?
Message-ID: <113300242@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 90 10:33:04 GMT
Lines: 20
Nf-ID: #N:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:113300242:000:1269
Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!saa33413    Jan 17 00:36:00 1990


We all know of the several C compilers for the Apple II (Manx Aztec for the
classic IIs and a variety (ORCA, APW, MPW IIGS, etc.) for the IIGS).
Here's my question.  UNIX was written in C.  Given this fact, one could
theoretically run UNIX on any computer with a C compiler.  The Apple II has
several C compilers.  Theoretically, you could therefore run UNIX on an Apple
II.  However, theory and practice are sometimes two different things.  Has
anybody ever tried to run UNIX on an Apple II?  Does anybody know what kind
of hardware it would take?  (I've heard UNIX is a bit large.)  I could
probably forget about running UNIX on my 128K IIe, but maybe someone with a
GS and several megs might want to try it.  (A TWGS might also be necessary, 
but I'm not exactly an authority on the IIGS.)
----------------------------------------          /|
| Scott Alfter                         |        _ |/_
| Internet:  saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu |       / \// \
|            free0066@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu |      /      /   Apple IIe:
----------------------------------------     |      |
| A keyboard--how quaint!              |     |       \  The power to
|                     --M. Scott, STIV |      \      /  be your best
----------------------------------------       \_/\_/