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LUnix on Famicom Disk System (www.youtube.com)
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Someone ported this 8-bit miniature Unix-like from Commodore to Nintendo.

The YouTube title is a little bit clickbaity, but the project is cool so I don't mind.

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[–] self@awful.systems 1 points 9 months ago

I experimented with this a little bit on C64 a few years ago! it’s very surprising what you can do with a 6502 — check out OS-9 for a cool 80s multitasking kinda-Unix-like that ran on Tandy Color Computers for an interesting comparison with LUnix