There's a couple of rcbus 8085 boards and a bunch of devices using Pico chips to emulate odder or hard to find IO devices. Wonder what it would take to persuade model T stuff to run on it
On Tue, 3 Nov 2026, 16:28 Daniel L, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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] >
