On Sat, 31 Oct 2026 at 23:50, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I read a bit about fuzix the last few weeks and, from my very very limited > perspective on the model-t, it didn't seem as if the platform would be > feasible without running from a separate expansion like the rex. Correct > me > if I'm wrong. >
You need some reasonable amount of fast storage and some banked memory. A TRS80 model 4 with the full RAM option and the tandy hard drive would have been the historical kind of machine you'd have needed at the beginning of the 1980s to run a Unix clone so not really a good match for the T. It does run on the Amstrad NC100/200 machines which are a similar kind of Z80 based platform but with 1MB of PCMCIA storage which is what makes it sort of viable (it's still not terribly useful) > > And for modern mcu's, fuzix seems a bit immature with its lack of tcp/ip > support. It has some tcp/ip support but I don't understand why anyone would use it for a modern MCU when you've got a bunch of microcontroller OS's for them. There is ESP8266 and Pi Pico support and people do funny things with it like running hack on a pico but it's really about retro stuff. As an OS it has more in common with things like lawnmower racing - making devices do things they were never ever intended to do despite it being tricky to do so. Alan
