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*Wikipedia article about LUnix was deleted on 20240604. This is the last revision, extracted from my browser's cache* | ||
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# LUnix | ||
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``` | ||
Written in Assembly language | ||
OS family Unix-like | ||
Working state Historic | ||
Latest release 0.22[1] | ||
Platforms C64, C128, Famicom with Disk System[2], Oric[3] | ||
Default | ||
user interface CLI | ||
License GNU General Public License | ||
Official website lng.sourceforge.net | ||
``` | ||
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![LUnix](https://github.com/ytmytm/c64-lng/assets/7527331/a61ed805-5742-410c-9059-be5f5a6036f6) | ||
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LUnix (short for "Little Unix")[4] is a Unix-like multi-tasking operating system designed to run natively on the Commodore 64 and Commodore 128[5] home computer systems. It supports TCP/IP networking (SLIP or PPP using an RS-232 interface). Unlike most Unix-like systems, LUnix is written in 6502 assembly language instead of C. | ||
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The first version of LUnix was released in 1993; the current version 0.21 dates from 2004. Amongst others, it supports preemptive multitasking, Unix pipes, a variety of protocols like TCP/IP, SLIP, PPP and RS-232, dynamic memory management and virtual consoles. It contains a web server and clients for telnet, POP3 and FTP and can act as a terminal or terminal server over RS-232. | ||
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LUnix was developed by Daniel Dallmann and contributed by Ilker Ficicilar, Stefan Haubenthal, Maciej Witkowiak and Paul Gardner-Stephen in late 1990s. The first generation LUnix had support for faster RS-232 via clever software tricks, 80 column VIC and VDC screen support, PS/2 keyboard support, and small set of standard Unix commands. It is possible with this first distribution to attach two keyboards and two monitors and one RS-232 terminal to set up a three simultaneous, multitasking sessions on a C128. LUnix also supports 2 MHz mode and boot disk convenience of C128 platform. | ||
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LUnix came with an extensive documentation at the time. Well-defined library calls, relocatable code support and decent memory management functions made it possible to develop software for LUnix easily. | ||
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## References | ||
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1. ["LUnix Next Generation V0.22"](https://csdb.dk/release/?id=150539). Commodore 64 Scene Database. Retrieved 2024-05-29. | ||
2. ["LNG-FDS"](https://github.com/decrazyo/lng-fds). Github. Retrieved 13 February 2024. | ||
3. ["Lunix/README.ORIC at master · jedeoric/Lunix"](https://github.com/jedeoric/Lunix/blob/master/README.ORIC). GitHub. Retrieved 2024-05-29. | ||
4. ["About LUnix"](http://hld.c64.org/poldi/lunix/lun_about.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100823150630/http://hld.c64.org/poldi/lunix/lun_about.html) 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved on 2010-08-27 | ||
5. ["LUnix Sourceforge Homepage"](http://lng.sourceforge.net/), Retrieved on 2010-08-28 |