[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux on a C128???

[John R. Hall]

Christopher Browne wrote:

> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:25:38 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Brian <briank at hex.net>  said:
> > Now for something completely different...
> >
> > Anybody aware of a Linux port to the lowly Commodore 128?  A quick
> > Google search didn't bring up anything meaningful (except a "newsflash"
> > from segfault concerning a Linux port to the VIC-20).
>
> That's a little bit *too* wimpy for a Linux port.
> A 6502 can only address 64K of memory, which really isn't enough for
> the purpose.  The ucLinux port (associated with the PalmPilot) depends
> on there being a couple megs of RAM; with only 64K, you'd be
> swapping so amazingly that it's not funny.

"Lunix" comes to mind... I'm not sure it actually shares any source code
with Linux though.
The 6502 is not a bad chip; I've written an emulator for it, and I can
testify that it has a ridiculous number of addressing modes and a sizeable
instruction set. (FWIW, I was able to emulate it at 3MHz on a Pentium 133
laptop).

-Reeves

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