At 16:30 13/03/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>YOU> I have just a question: what about Linux or a Unix system on a MSX
>>??
>>
>>Linux is out of the question, a different Unix might be possible. In
>>fact, I thought I once heard something about an Unix being developed for
>>z80.
>>Too bad the MSX doesn't have an MMU.
>
>
>Yup, there is, it's called MIMIX I believe. I'm not sure about that
>though...
MINIX, it was developed by Andrew Tannenbaum (from Netherlands!), and he
put it into his book, "Modern Operating Systems". Well, MINIX is not Unix,
according to what I've read. Why? I don't know.
>I've heard that some guy at Zilog made a Linux port for the Z80! However,
>I've checked their homepage but couldn't find anything. I haven't searched
>anywhere else, so who knows :-) But, perhaps the hardware requirements for
>that port are too different from our MSX... Or it is so small, it only uses
>the first 64kB...
As I've told in a earlier message, there is some guys in Canada who are
porting Linux to the Pilot, which is a machine which doesn't have MMU, like
MSX.
>Btw, something else: I've bought the Z380 preliminary from Sunrise Hardware
>Service at the MSX-fair in Tilburg a year ago, but page 42 is missing..
>Nowadays, many ppl have a flatbedscanner, so could somebody please scan page
>42 for me and mail it to me? Then I can print it out to make it complete :-)
>(if you do so, please do NOT use JPEG.. Just use black/white TIFF or
>compressed TGA or even GIF)
What? You've got what? A Z380 databook? Am I right?
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