--- Maarten ter Huurne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, "�iogo" Sperb Schneider wrote:
>
> Making an MSX port of Linux would only make sense if
> Linux programs would
> compile on Linux-MSX without thorough modification.
> I doubt that is
> possible. The 64K address space of the Z80 is a real
> pain. Ofcourse it is
> possible in theory, but it would be like a virtual
> machine running on the
> Z80 to emulate the features the Z80 lacks in
> hardware. Speed would be
> horrible.
That's true. I believe we should think on Linux for
MSX only if for the new MSXes that could possibly
exist in the future.
Talking about machinery evolution... I still can't
believe the IBM-PC doesn't count with a Z80 as a
co-processor. Emulating the MSX on an IBM would be
just natural.
> I think porting Unix programs to UZIX is a much
> easier approach. As part of
> the porting process, functionality that is not
> needed can be thrown out, so
> that a lightweight version emerges that can run on
> MSX at a practical speed
> and memory usage.
Sounds good. Sounds very good. I think I'm gonna have
to find myself a well equipped MSX as soon as
possible.
> The "Linux for 8086" project (ELKS?) is not really a
> Linux, it's a subset
> of Linux. We could make a Linux subset for MSX, but
> why bother, UZIX is
> already there and it's making great progress.
Very true!
But wait a minute... You said 8086? I believe the Z80
is also called 8080, right? Does these processors have
any relation between them?
Later!
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