> On Nov 1, 2026, at 6:32 AM, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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)
This description sounds like the REXCPM is perfectly suited to making it go; apart from the lack of display parity, it's easily a peer to its contemporary Z80 desktop systems from the specs standpoint. Storage at memory speeds, full address space, it's all in there. Without expansion, I can't imagine it'd fit. The C64's "breadbin" unix-like project has far fewer features and barely fits on the machine at all. I look forward to seeing how Fuzix continues to progress. It's just hard to picture the 100-series as being suited for it at all without hardware being added.
