More on GNO/ME

This is really fascinating! GNO allows up to 32 concurrent processors. On an Apple IIGS. Like, wow this is impressive and must have been really really wild when it first came out.

I figured out where a lot of my problems came from - somehow I had corrupted two of the GNO distribution archives. Once I realized that, I got fresh copies and all seems well... almost all.

It appears that the larger commands fail quietly (sometimes locking up the machine). I'm guessing that this is related to the amount of RAM in the machine. With 1.25MB, I'm left with about 200KB available (GNO sits on top of GS/OS, so that's really not that bad).

Anyway, I'm working on something useful to do with it ... :-)

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Unix ... for my Apple IIGS

This is pretty cool. I finally spent an hour installing GNO (full name is GNO/ME) on the Apple IIGS. Basically, you end up with a multiprocessor machine in a 16 bit world. I got it working with a new 512MB CF card I had purchased - I have 4 32MB ProDOS formatted harddrives and a 384MB HFS formatted volume too.

There are a few flukes, and I need to figure out what I can do with it, but it has a Unix-like shell. I'm pretty sure I can get some form of terminal going (probably not TCP/IP). Security is not the greatest (ProDOS and HFS filesystems are strictly single user - you have access to everything on the system).

Now I wonder how I can use it. Development? Have no clue, but it is pretty impressive: 1.25MB, 8MHz, 16-bit.

Yum continues to get hosed periodically...

I'm not sure why. Anyone who has an idea - I'd love to know. In the meantime, I continue to following my yum unhosed directions.