[Coco] Fuzix

[Aaron Wolfe]

>From a user perspective, there is definitely no reason to be excited or
interested in Fuzix.  It sounds like it offers nothing you would personally
benefit from.

However, for those of us who enjoy more technical aspects of the hobby,
especially writing system level code, Fuzix is a huge deal.  It's the
biggest project to bring a unix system to 8 bit systems in a long time,
maybe ever, and it has a very famous (and very productive) unix celebrity
behind it.

Chances that fuzix will be something a user would want to put on their CoCo
are slim, and definitely a long way out.  However, there are lots of
interesting programming opportunities right now.   So for those types of
people, this is big news.
On Apr 11, 2015 12:07 AM, "Al Hartman" <alhartman6 at optonline.net> wrote:

> The answers to my questions seem to be.
>
> 1. Since it isn't real, just a promise of something that might happen in
> the future, there is no advantage to it.
> 2. Since it isn't real, there are no screenshots.
> 3. Since it isn't real, there are no apps.
> 4. Since it doesn't run on the Coco (or any 6809 based system), there is
> no advantage to "running" it.
>
> Fuzix is wish-ware. It's all promise, and no reality yet. Like Haiku,
> ReactOS, Syllable and all the other free Open Source OSes I've been
> following for years. According to the links, there is no userspace yet.
> Maybe in a year or two, it will be in shape for end users. For now, it's
> just in it's beginning stages.
>
> I don't understand all the excitement.
>
> -[ Al ]-
>
> -----Original Message----- From: RETRO Innovations
>
> On 4/10/2015 10:41 PM, Al Hartman wrote:
>
>>
>> I read that. My questions still stand.
>>
> I'm not sure how one can be more specific than Alan in his post:
>
>  * It's an operating system
>  * It mimics System 5 UNIX
>  * It is initially running on Z80 CPU, but the core has been ported to
>    6809 and 6502
>  * it is CPU portable
>  * It is free, unlike most OS options
>
> Jim
>
>
>>
>> -[ Al ]-
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:03 PM, RETRO Innovations wrote:
>>
>>  I assume you have not found this link (#2 on Google)
>>>
>>> https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlanCoxLinux/posts/a2jAP7Pz1gj
>>>
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