Show HN: Unix for the Commodore 64? Open Source

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10 points | by ascarola 7 hours ago ago

2 comments

  • reaperducer 4 hours ago

    Around 1987 I mostly completed a Unix-like OS for the C-64 called MATRIX. I was probably around six weeks away from burning it to a PROM when I got a new girlfriend and completely lost interest in the project.

    I don't remember too much about it, other than:

    - Because Commodore drives had ludicrously long file names for the era, paths like /etc/dev/joy1 didn't need any weirdness.

    - Password encryption? What's that?

    - What we would call "metadata" today was stored in USR files.

    - Directory listing was agonizingly slow. I remember commandeering tracks 16 and 17 for my own hair-brained directory structure in an effort to speed things up.

  • rasz 3 hours ago

    Quite bold to put mit license and claim copyright/authorship on Claude generated code.