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From: jdeitch@pnet01.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Apple ][ Minix
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Date: 8 May 89 15:57:05 GMT
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henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>In article <4155@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>>I have no qualms with seeing a 65816 Minix (ala Apple //gs) but on a stock
>>Apple with a 6502 and a 64k address space makes it impossible.  The 1.2 PC
>>kernel is 89K after it's booted, and you need a ramdisk for the root file
>>system, so that's just 360K of RAM just to start up...
>
>On the other hand, Mini-UNIX (a cut-down V6 Unix) ran happily, if not too
>quickly, in 56KB on small pdp11s, and there was at least one further-cut
>variant that could run in still less.  "Run" here means things like "cc",
>mind you, not just "echo". :-)  So it's not inherently impossible, unless
>6502 code density is really dreadful (which it might be, given what a
>horror that CPU is), if you're willing to work hard and do without the
>ramdisk.  Difficult, yes...
>
>(I remember a Mini-UNIX system on a 56KB LSI-11 with a small, slow hard
>disk supporting several students programming in a database class.  I also
>remember a Mini-UNIX that swapped on 8-inch floppies.  Mind you, neither
>was fast, and I'm glad *I* didn't have to use either...)


Or how about OS-9?  It ran on a 64k Radio Shack Color Computer, with
multi-user and multi-tasking.  I ran it on a hard disk so it wasn't to bad in
the multi-user mode.

It had a C compiler, and a couple of other niceties, like a seperate execution
directory and data directory.

Jim

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