On November 1, 2026 6:32:46 AM PST, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 [...]
>>
>
>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.
Thanks for the historical perspective. I don't know about Dan, but for someone
like me who didn't use a Model T in its heyday, it can be hard to fathom how
limited these devices were considered even back then. If I understand
correctly, the M100's killer app was EDIT -- it could store text offline and
upload it later to a "real" computer. So, yeah, what we're contemplating is as
ridiculous as running UN*X on a VT100 terminal.
>As an OS [Fuzix] 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
"O, reason not the need!" :-)
--B9
