[Coco] Fuzix - new unix project for z80, 6502, 6809

Bill Nobel b_nobel at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 2 22:21:25 EST 2014


Oh sorry, I thought I saw your name in this build.  I am trying to get this version to a point of a look at the buffers for SCF and RBF and a look at the new boot layout.

Bill Nobel

> On Nov 2, 2014, at 9:11 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry, I think some wires got crossed somewhere.  I've never worked on or
> with os9 level 3.  If you saw my name in commits or source comments, I
> think it would have been in l1 or l2 code.
> 
> -Aaron
> On Nov 2, 2014 10:01 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Aaron, totally OT, but do you have a os9def of the Level 3 code you
>> built?  I am currently dissecting a build from Bob Devries that I received
>> and I notice from my disasm there is a different layout to System direct
>> page, and a few extra system calls.  If you have it would help stabilize in
>> time if I knew what I am looking at.
>> 
>> Bill Nobel
>> 
>>> On Nov 2, 2014, at 8:31 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> (Posted by Alan Cox of Linux kernel fame)
>>> 
>>> "I am pleased to announce the initial (*very* initial) code drop of the
>>> Fuzix OS. The goal of Fuzix is to provide a reasonably complete Systen 5
>>> Unix experience without all the bloat. At this point in time the kernel
>>> needs about 40K, plus memory for user space.
>>> 
>>> The Initially supported processor architecture is the Zilog Z80. The code
>>> uses no "naughty" instructions so should run correctly on clones and
>>> variants, as well as on things like the T80 FPGA core. The core code has
>>> been built for 6809 and 6502 as a sanity test but more work would be
>> needed
>>> to bring up an actual platform. In theory if it's got 8bits and banked
>> RAM
>>> you can probably run Fuzix OS on it."
>>> 
>>> https <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>://
>>> <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>github.com
>>> <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>/
>>> <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>EtchedPixels
>>> <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>/
>>> <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>FUZIX
>>> <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>
>>> 
>>> Thought it might interest some on the coco list..this is *not* something
>>> you're going to install and play with as a user any time soon, but if you
>>> ever felt like hacking on a coco Unix this might be a fun project to get
>>> involved with.
>>> 
>>> -Aaron
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