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How the Atari ST Almost Had Real Unix
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People at York University coded "blit" like behaviour into them, they were doing core wars, all kinds of things with them. Mind blowingly good systems for their size but lacking the grunt and ?mmu?
Same timeframe, whitechapel workstations, and the ICL Perq. I used the perq. Also had real unix, and almost-unix OS. Whitechapel were amazing. Very classy. Then Sun exploded on the scene, all those giant fridge sized Dec Ultrix mini systems started to look very tired.
And yet it was 2 or more years later. you still found the Dec PDP8 based office systems being deployed. And the DECmate and things. Not really a pdp8. compatible.
Same timeframe, whitechapel workstations, and the ICL Perq. I used the perq. Also had real unix, and almost-unix OS. Whitechapel were amazing. Very classy. Then Sun exploded on the scene, all those giant fridge sized Dec Ultrix mini systems started to look very tired.
And yet it was 2 or more years later. you still found the Dec PDP8 based office systems being deployed. And the DECmate and things. Not really a pdp8. compatible.
I managed to put in shared execute in place library support, the limitation being the number of shared libraries rather than what they supported.