> > Hmmm.. could be an interesting project. but the 8086/88 and SIBO are both > > 16bit processors... > > This is true - but doesn't mean that it's impossible. I think on the web > site it mentions Z80 machines as being in the plan. Didn't the original > versions of UNIX run on 8 bit machines, with less memory than the SAM. >
Lack of a decent memory manager makes writing a multitasking OS for the z80 a pain.... but there's a version of Minix that runs on the Amiga with 68000's that don't have the MMU. So it's doable.
