Re: 8-bit Linux?

Gábor Lénárt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-8086
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 05:03:32PM +0100, David Given wrote:
> Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Have you seen Uzi?

No, and it seems (now as I've google'd a bit) there are some similar tries
what I've described, but it was just an old idea of mine never tried or not
even I checked out if others have similar projects or such.

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