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by mghackerlady 46 days ago
There was another unix on the Lisa, i'd tell you more but there's literally nothing online about it and the only guy with copies of it hasn't responded to my letter. The company that made it dumped their Lisa unix stuff on him when they went bust because he sold lisa related stuff. Other than that tidbit of info, I haven't found anything online about it
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That "other unix" is probably UniPlus Unix, which we actually do have copies of, as well as its source code. It runs great on the FPGA-based Lisa too.

Here's the source code: https://github.com/arcanebyte/uniplus

And here are the disk images, although I think you need to be logged in to download them: https://lisalist2.com/index.php/topic,103.0.html

How did I manage to miss that
To be fair, the disk images are actually pretty tough to find. There've been a few times where I've spent a while looking for them because I lost the files on my computer and forgot where they were online. And that page isn't indexed on Google, so you really need to know where to look.