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

[Francis Swygert]

Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 21:31:55 -0500
From: Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com>

(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."

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So it's limited to the CoCo3 because of the banked memory requirement. I don't see this as catching on with the CoCo crowd because we already have Nitros9, which is a mature system, and very Unix-like by design. It might catch on for some of the home-brewed 6809 systems though. 

 
Frank Swygert
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