[Coco] Fuzix - new unix project for z80, 6502, 6809

Aaron Wolfe aawolfe at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 22:11:51 EST 2014


Sorry, I think some wires got crossed somewhere.  I've never worked on or
with os9 level 3.  If you saw my name in commits or source comments, I
think it would have been in l1 or l2 code.

-Aaron
 On Nov 2, 2014 10:01 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Aaron, totally OT, but do you have a os9def of the Level 3 code you
> built?  I am currently dissecting a build from Bob Devries that I received
> and I notice from my disasm there is a different layout to System direct
> page, and a few extra system calls.  If you have it would help stabilize in
> time if I knew what I am looking at.
>
> Bill Nobel
>
> > On Nov 2, 2014, at 8:31 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > (Posted by Alan Cox of Linux kernel fame)
> >
> > "I am pleased to announce the initial (*very* initial) code drop of the
> > Fuzix OS. The goal of Fuzix is to provide a reasonably complete Systen 5
> > Unix experience without all the bloat. At this point in time the kernel
> > needs about 40K, plus memory for user space.
> >
> > The Initially supported processor architecture is the Zilog Z80. The code
> > uses no "naughty" instructions so should run correctly on clones and
> > variants, as well as on things like the T80 FPGA core. The core code has
> > been built for 6809 and 6502 as a sanity test but more work would be
> needed
> > to bring up an actual platform. In theory if it's got 8bits and banked
> RAM
> > you can probably run Fuzix OS on it."
> >
> > https <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>://
> > <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>github.com
> > <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>/
> > <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>EtchedPixels
> > <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>/
> > <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>FUZIX
> > <https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX>
> >
> > Thought it might interest some on the coco list..this is *not* something
> > you're going to install and play with as a user any time soon, but if you
> > ever felt like hacking on a coco Unix this might be a fun project to get
> > involved with.
> >
> > -Aaron
> >
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