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Michael Engel Jun 5, 2025

In 1978, Prof. Verbaeten ported 7th Ed. Unix to the Motorola 68000 at KU Leuven in Belgium. This port is not archived at TUHS, only mentioned here:
https://eng.kuleuven.be/en/stories/50-years-of-computer-science-engineering
https://museum.cs.kuleuven.be/misc/Tim_Ameye_Sander_Van_Loock_40-jaar.pdf (p. 12)

There's also a paper describing the port which is not available:
Verbaeten, P., Berbers, Y. (1983). Porting Unix. In: Proceedings of UNICOM Conference, San Diego.

If you happen to have pointers to any of this, I would be happy to hear from you!

#retrocomputing #unix #MC68000 #kuleuven

50 Years of Computer Science Engineering

We reflect on the early challenges, curriculum growth, and the department's crucial role in academia and industry today.

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copsewood Jun 5, 2025

@me_ I used Apollo Domain OS and SunOS versions of Unix on Motorola 680x0 chip workstations from around 1986 . Did some CAD/CAM software development and later systems admin on these platforms.

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Jonas Jun 6, 2025

@copsewood
Does Motorola VERSAdos rings a bell to you?

https://infosec.exchange/@magnetic_tape/113623839172742117
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Jonas (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images I stumbled uppon forty-seven (47) 5.25" floppy disks regarding an old school Motorola OS called VERSAdos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERSAdos) including a C68 C compiler for it. Sadly I don't currently have access to any hardware to dump it. Would it be of interest to either of you @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]? I'm located in France but I'm willing to share shipping costs or cover them if they aren't insane. If one of my EU-based follower here is willing to dump them, I'm ready do donate them. I only want those to be dumped (if it's still feasible) and publicly shared.

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copsewood

@magnetic_tape @me_ I don't think I used the Versados operating system, though used many OSs in the eighties and nineties. Things really took off when Linux became usable in the mid nineties, making it possible to do some work on hardware costing a tenth as much as before. Used a CP/M variant on my Z80 Einstein at home used for word processing and a payroll freelance business. Some early game consoles loaded off audio tape in those days.