On 3/27/25 1:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 27 Mar 2025 13:22:26 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:... There is a group (no idea how large*) who have ported Unix** to several 8-bit processors. Now, Unix on an old XT I do remember. That was a commercial product. But imagine Unix on your TRS-80. (This is NOT a joke.) The project is called FUZIX.Sounds like the logical complement to Hercules. Hmmm... Is there a legal Hercules OMVS component under MVS3.8 (OS 380?) on Hercules? In my fantasy alternate universe, IBM implemented only an ASCII OMVS kernel and allowed the shell and utilities to percolate in as FOSS while providing ASCII<->EBCDIC(CCSID) translation for Classic data sets. but that wouldn't have met the marketing POSIX requirement.
That's a clever idea! You should snag the FUZIX source and see what you can compile on MVS 3.8. -- -- R; <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
