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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Whitesmiths Idris for the Atari ST, an early Unix-like real-time operating system produced by Whitesmiths, has been fully recovered and now runs under emulation. Idris is a Unix variant I never heard of which ran on a variety of machines, even 8080 micros.

https://virtuallyfun.com/2025/12/31/whitesmiths-idris-os-for-atari-st-virtualized/

#retrocomputing #unix #AtariST

https://virtuallyfun.com

Whitesmiths IDRIS OS for Atari ST Virtualized!

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Néstor 🇵🇸
Néstor 🇵🇸
@nestor@mastorol.es replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@amoroso I wan to try it!

More about idris here: https://adventofcomputing.libsyn.com/episode-149-idris-is-not-unix

Advent of Computing: Episode 149 - IDRIS Is Not UNIX

This episode we are taking a trip back to UNIX world. We're looking at IDRIS, the first clone of UNIX. It was supposed to be highly compatible, but use no code from Bell Labs. IDRIS ran on everything from the Intel 8080 up to the IBM System/370. There was even a version that could run MS-DOS programs. Sound too good to be true? Well, that may be the case. Selected Sources:  - A Quarter Century of UNIX - Co-Idris disk images and executables
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Michael Engel
Michael Engel
@me_@sueden.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@amoroso I'm not sure that this information about an 8080 port of Idris on the Wikipedia page is correct. The Whitesmiths C compiler (see github link below) definitely has an 8080 backend, this was used to build another 6th Edition Unix clone for Z80 systems, Morrow's Micronix.

https://github.com/hansake/Whitesmiths-C-compiler/tree/main/c_compiler_v22_src
https://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/mnix_micronix.html
https://github.com/cm68/micronix

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GitHub - cm68/micronix: Morrow Designs Micronix and tools

Morrow Designs Micronix and tools. Contribute to cm68/micronix development by creating an account on GitHub.

Morrow's MICRONIX Operating System

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Whitesmiths-C-compiler/c_compiler_v22_src at main · hansake/Whitesmiths-C-compiler

Whitesmiths C compiler. One of the earliest commercial C compilers available. - hansake/Whitesmiths-C-compiler
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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@me_ I don't know, Wikipedia has no source on this.

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