[Coco] Fuzix

[Al Hartman]

Sorry, to have sounded so negative. But, with everyone so excited for it...

I went and tried to find out what all the excitement was about, and came to 
the conclusions you wrote below.

I've followed many OS operating systems and even contributed funds. But, 
years later there is still nothing usable for day to day. I remember the 
Executor MacOS emulator saying that in 6 months, it would be able to host 
and boot MacOS 7.x. I bought it, but Cliff never delivered that (you can 
download it for free now, at the last revision at www.ardi.com). That was 
the mid 1990's.

By my estimation, FUZIX is where Linux was in it's first year or two. Maybe 
someday, FUZIX will be the Linux for classic computers...

-[ Al ]-

-----Original Message----- 
From: 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.