On November 1, 2026 8:28:20 PM PST, Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. That was my feeling. I considered getting the cpm rex a few years ago but opted against it. It looks fun - but at the end I kept asking myself 'why?' The backpack was the best decision for me and that was rather recent. I like my trusty 200 as it is.
For cpm I am considering a build of the rc2014. Every now and again I'll peruse the rc2014 bbs and play on the cli. The rc2014 really strokes my permacomputing urges. daniel sysop | air & wave bbs finger | [email protected]
