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Minix no longer quite so mini

Minix no longer quite so mini

Posted Mar 8, 2012 20:32 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Minix no longer quite so mini by smoogen
Parent article: MINIX 3.2: A microkernel with NetBSD applications

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.


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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.

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