SvenMichaelKlose / tunix

Portable, Lisp-based OS for classic home computers and embedded systems.

The TUNIX Project

⚠️ This project is currently under heavy development and has not been officially released yet.

Overview

This project attempts to create an operating system for minimalistic computers that is portable, self-hosting, and multi-tasking, complete with a comprehensive set of applications.

TUNIX Lisp (glowing hot!)

TUNIX Lisp is the centre of it all and under heavy construction.

• TUNIX Lisp

• Bytecode compiler roadmap

• Future enhancements

• Wiki

• Release changes

• Build

• Discuss (Be the first!)

Targets

All targets require a disk drive of some sort.

Target	Requirements	Limits
Commodore C128		No images/debugger
Commodore C16		Defunct.
Commodore C64
Commodore plus/4
Commodore VIC-20	+37K RAM.	No images/debugger

Untested targets

Target
Apple II	Full memory expansion required.
Apple II enhanced
CP/M

For these targets binaries are compiled but no-one went through the trouble making disk images and running them in an emulator. Almost guaranteed to not work.

Broken targets

Target
Commodore PET	SYNTAX ERROR on program start.

Other Parts of TUNIX

Libraries

There are quite a lot for the VIC-20 but this portale and embedded database will make a difference:

• BielefeldDB

Commodore VIC-20

• TUNIX VIC-20 kernel
• VI editor
• Console
• UltiFS filesystem