Unix on Zenith Supersport SX

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <dseagrav_at_bsdserver.tek-star.net>
Date: Wed Dec 10 07:39:20 1997

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:

[snip]

> No way, UZI is fairly tight and minimal V7 and want 32k for itself and 32k
> for apps and a disk (hard disk) to implement total swapping of the swapable
> sections of the app or UZI.
>
> UNIX and varients are a relatively large system OS and doesn't fit well
> on most 8bit cpus especially if written in C due to code inefficentcy
> from a lack of a full indexed/indirect addressing modes that C expects.
> (common on PDP11 and other minis). The 8086 is a bit better but the
             ^^^^^
Maybe it should be ported here instead?
:)
Received on Wed Dec 10 1997 - 07:39:20 GMT