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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: UNIX on the Apple II?
Message-ID: <11977@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 18 Jan 90 12:28:13 GMT
References: <113300242@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <113300242@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>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.

Particularly if your theory is all wet.

By analogy:  A refinery process control system is written in Fortran.
Therefore I should be able to manufacture gasoline on any computer that
has a Fortran compiler.

>Has anybody ever tried to run UNIX on an Apple II?

A full port would be required, involving a vast amount of work
particularly considering how awful the Apple II hardware is.

My advice is to forget it.  If you want UNIX, buy a real computer.