[Coco] Fuzix

[J Arcane]

Fuzix is an open source project.

Comparing it to a closed-source commercial product is not really relevant.

Fuzix will do as much as the contributing developers make it do.

I'm personally excited by it. I'm impressed with what OS-9 is capable of
given it's age and target platform, but I frankly still can't make heads or
tails of it. I'd find a certain enjoyment in running a more traditional
UNIX env. on an 8-bit micro, and so far most of the other past projects
like LUnix have gone nowhere.

Dev takes time though. No reason to poo-poo it before it's even a year old.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
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