Michael Engel

The Swedish computer club #PD68 built Motorola 6809 and 68k-based systems in the 80s. One of these systems, based on a 68k-based CPU board designed in Norway, runs the Idris OS, the first Unix clone.

I’ll give a talk on Idris and the PD68 machine next SATURDAY (April 11) – not! Friday as I wrote – at 19:00 at Update dataföreningen in Uppsala. I‘ll show the (non functional) PD68 machine and an Atari ST emulator running Idris!

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Apr 7 at 7:51amWeb
Show threadaquaz13h ago
@me_ uhm... 11th April is Saturday
Show threadMichael Engel12h ago
@aquaz Ouch, right, thanks! It is in fact _Saturday_ April 11th!
Show threadResuna7h ago

@me_ @dfupdate

Technically Idris was explicitly not a Unix "clone" because they were concerned about violating Bell Labs copyright on the Unix Programming Manual, and made many small changes to make it clear that it was a separate language and operating system. For example they replaced printf with putfmt...

This is not to say that Idris was not amazing.