Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!kamath From: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple II Future [Why not a techy's Wish Machine Message-ID: <11439@reed.UUCP> Date: 18 Dec 88 21:36:44 GMT References: <11416@reed.UUCP> <9192@smoke.BRL.MIL> <3886@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: kamath@reed.UUCP (Sean Kamath) Organization: Reed College, Portland OR Lines: 42 In article <3886@pt.cs.cmu.edu> ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes: OK, I knew it was a single digit pdp. My understanding was that it actually had a 15 bit bus, giving it a 32K address space. Ok, So I'm really shaky on it, but that's the reason I was given for why octal was so big. . . and that yes, it was a word machine with 16 bit words. However. . . *I* don't really know. The point was, it was small. >>>Hmm. Sounds like something to do after I write my thesis. >Doug Gwyn suggests >>Try adapting Minix instead. Good luck with the odd-ball Apple I/O. >Or you could try UZI, which is a v7 clone for Z80 systems. >But, it's mostly written in C. It does multi-processing by total >swapping, which means you need fast hard disk. (or the guts to >port it to a bank-switched environment like that available in the >//e.) Actually, what I had in mind was something a little more complicated, as in the original first book of Xinu. In anycase, I currently have a C compiler for the Apple, and a friend of mine is trying to get the gnu compiler to output code for the 65816 right now. I plan to have some larg memory card available, and will either bank switch in processes with ~48K limites on data/program space, or just go the 65816 option route. In anycase, you'll probably hear about this again in 2034. >-- > - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Sean Kamath (OK, So I'm really testing out the new 2400 baud modem I just bought. And Whitney, if you're around these days, you gotta get to theat bug in zlink before I go crazy! :-) ) -- UUCP: {decvax allegra ucbcad ucbvax hplabs}!tektronix!reed!kamath CSNET: reed!kamath@Tektronix.CSNET || BITNET: kamath@reed.BITNET ARPA: kamath%reed.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu US Snail: 3934 SE Boise, Portland, OR 97202-3126 (I hate 4 line .sigs!)