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Yetanfou
on Nov 25, 2020
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A Port of “The Last True Unix” to x86
It was a way to run Unix (with a large U) on inexpensive hardware so it could be used for POS terminals and similar applications. This enabled it to capture markets where the workstation and server Unix manufacturers simply were too expensive.
azalemeth
on Nov 25, 2020
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Did it "do" anything special -- or was "cheap" its USP?
Yetanfou
on Nov 26, 2020
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No, nothing special, its thing was that it ran on off the shelf PC-hardware which made it cheap to deploy.
Angostura
on Nov 26, 2020
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It was also simple, comparatively nicely packaged Unix. You could pop it on a PC and it would run.
cmrdporcupine
on Nov 25, 2020
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It ran on x86 before anything else like that existed, which tbh was a pretty big deal.
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