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Minix no longer quite so miniMinix no longer quite so miniPosted Mar 8, 2012 18:00 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: Minix no longer quite so mini by epa Parent article: MINIX 3.2: A microkernel with NetBSD applications
Sigh.. in the good old days you learned a lot trying to keep your program in 64k. How are the kids these days going to learn :).
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Minix no longer quite so mini Posted Mar 8, 2012 20:32 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]
That class of computer is actually quite popular with certain groups these days. There's a popular series of machines produced by the original designer, as well as a huge variety of compatible clones, and lots of peripherals available. Actually, you've got a high-end device if you've got 64k to play with; most of them just have 32k. Of course, I've yet to hear of people trying to run something Unix-like on an Arduino, but it's certainly a platform which needs low-resource programs and provides unusual benefits over platforms that aren't so constrained.
Minix no longer quite so mini Posted Mar 12, 2012 4:25 UTC (Mon) by cmccabe (guest, #60281) [Link]
You could always run LUnix [ http://hld.c64.org/poldi/lunix/lundoc/lng.html ]. According to the website (updated 1997), "90% of the kernel are DONE !! :-)"
Minix no longer quite so mini Posted Mar 12, 2012 19:23 UTC (Mon) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258) [Link]
Please, get with the times ;-) The *current* website (http://lng.sourceforge.net/lunix/lunix.html) was last updated in 1999 and LUnix has since been rewritten as LNG (http://lng.sourceforge.net/ last updated 2004).
It won't run on the mentioned Arduino of course since it's written for the 6510 CPU and peripherals in a C-64 or C-128.
Minix no longer quite so mini Posted Mar 12, 2012 18:12 UTC (Mon) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Arduino. A low cost Uno board has 32kb of ram and is nonetheless quite popular.
Minix no longer quite so mini Posted Mar 12, 2012 19:21 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
Arduino is hardly 'low cost'. For the price of an Arduino board with stone-age technology CPU one can get a nice real modern CPU with at least 4-16Mb of RAM.
Minix no longer quite so mini Posted Mar 12, 2012 19:36 UTC (Mon) by andreasb (subscriber, #80258) [Link]
The µC on an Arduino Uno has only 2 kB of RAM. It does have 32 kB of on-chip program flash memory.
There's no real dynamic program loading possible (from connected storage or whatever) since it can't execute instructions from RAM. Unless you take the indirection of a script/bytecode interpreter or outright emulation of a different CPU (there's an AVR based CP/M project out there that emulates a 8080 with external DRAM).
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