AncientXinu

Xinu Is Not Unix ...

Background

• This repository contains early historical releases of the Xinu and Xinu-68K software, recovered from 9-track tapes.

Wikipedia says:

Xinu first ran on the LSI-11 platform. A Motorola 68000 port was done by Derrick Burns in 1984. ... A second Motorola 68000 (Sun-3) port [was released] circa 1988 by Shawn Ostermann and Steve Chapin ...

• This repository contains recovered historical code from 1981-1987.

Description

• extracted/68 contains early Xinu-68K (late 1981 to early 1983)
• extracted/7 contains Xinu Version 7 (late 1987 to early 1988)
• The repository top-level directory contains lzip-compressed copies of the original tape archives.

Additional Information

• See johnsonjh/Xinu68K for the later Xinu-68K releases.