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From: "Gábor Lénárt" <lgb@lgb.hu>
To: Chris Cureau <chriscureau@bellsouth.net>
Cc: "ELKS (linux-8086)" <linux-8086@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 8-bit Linux?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:12:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120328151227.GM10030@vega.lgb.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332946219.58159.YahooMailClassic@web180817.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 07:50:19AM -0700, Chris Cureau wrote:
> For what it's worth...I still haven't given up on my dream of Unix on the 6502. :)  I've got a good bit already written that will run on a Commodore 128 and working on a ramdisk for those who have external RAM (or an emulator!)
> 
> Blazing 2MHz speeds, no memory protection...and I'd bet it could handle multiple users with the ramdisk once all is said and done. :)

Interesting, indeed :) What I wanted once, just for a wild idea (I guess it
would be unusable slow, but just for the "feeling"): using the non-MMU Linux
port (so not elks) eg for Amiga or similar, and write a motorola 68K CPU
"emulator" for the C64 DTV (where 2Mb RAM should be enough for "something" -
and yes, it's not a "C64", maybe with SuperCPU it would have been better)
with minor modifications maybe on the target though.  But with lack of
enough freetime and the "mad" nature of the idea I never tried to do it: it
wouldn't be se useful at all, ELKS would make some sense with "native" port
at least :) :)


-- Gábor
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-28 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-28 14:50 8-bit Linux? Chris Cureau
2012-03-28 15:12 ` Gábor Lénárt [this message]
2012-03-28 16:03   ` David Given
2012-03-28 16:33     ` Chris Cureau
2012-03-28 17:20       ` David Given
2012-03-28 17:43         ` Gábor Lénárt
2012-03-28 17:35     ` Gábor Lénárt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-03-28  0:36 Scott Ferguson
2012-03-28  1:03 ` Stefan de Konink

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