Applications
Most Unix and Minix programs were able to be ported to 1616/OS. Ports included:
- advent, ar, arc, at, cal, cat, chess (gnu), cmp, comm, compress, conquest, cron, dd, diff, ed, eroff, grep, head, indent, make, MicroEMACS, more, nroff, roff, sc, sed, sort, split, STEVIE, strings, sum, tail, tar, tee, ularn, uniq, vi, wanderer, wc, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem, zoo
Several messaging or bulletin board systems were written, including Usenet and Fidonet gateways, and many utilities to allow safe shell-level dial-up access.
Several computer languages were supported, including:
- BASIC
- Tiny BASIC
- C (HiTech C, and later gcc)
- Forth
- Lisp
- MUMPS
- 68000 assembly language
The collection of 1616/OS shareware eventually grew to seventeen 800kB floppies. Included were innumerable small utilities and ported applications from other environments.
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