1616 Applications
Ported Applications
Almost anything which drifted past on comp.sources.unix was portable to
1616/OS.
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I did a termcap library, so we had vi, ularn and conquest.
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The MGR window manager
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All the normal textutils - wc, head, tail, sed, ed, tar, zoo, compress,
nroff, etc - some from GNU, some from Minix.
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VT100 emulator
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The 'English' speech synthesiser, backended by a Philips chip which,
sadly, you can't get any more.
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Heaps of other stuff.
My stuff
I didn't write many userland applications. Most of my RAM-based development
was porting things like MGR, GCC, G++, bison, yacc, ...
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Some of the dial-up BBS system.
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The second news system
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The email system
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The system utilities like blockdev (format disks, make file systems, etc),
fscheck (fsck), chdev (stty on steroids), etc..
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at, cron
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A disassembler
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Virtual console driver
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The cscript scripting language. (Here is my
1616 rc0 boot-up script)
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A disk-based version of the full-screen editor. This had document-processing
extensions and an offline print formatting application.
Contributed applications
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SSFORTH (who did this? It was really cool.)
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The MUMPS language (who was that doctor down in Melbourne?)
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Colin McCormack ported the original news reader. He ported cfront.
He also wrote getty and a few other bits and pieces of the multiuser support.
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Conal Walsh did the CP/M port and SSEG.
Commercial Applications
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The Hitech C compiler
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Colin's Minix port
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I think SSEG cost money - I forget.
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The macro assembler, SSASM. A simple version was in ROM. The
fancy version with macros was disk-based.
On to The users.
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Andrew Morton, 8 March 1999