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* [9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809?
@ 2025-01-30 22:57 joel.rees
  2025-01-30 23:23 ` Anthony Sorace
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From: joel.rees @ 2025-01-30 22:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I had the idea that the minimum hardware that Plan 9 had run in was 80386, but I look and it says minimum is x86 with 16M. And I seem to recall that the original did run on 8086 (which would have been less than 16M at the time).

So I'm wondering if anyone ever implemented it on 68K.

And I'm also wondering if a bank-switched 6809 (16-bit addressing) with 16M RAM or more might have any hope of running Plan 9.
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* Re: [9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809?
  2025-01-30 22:57 [9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809? joel.rees
@ 2025-01-30 23:23 ` Anthony Sorace
  2025-01-30 23:45   ` joel.rees
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* Re: [9fans] Plan 9 minimum hardware -- 68K or (cough) 6809?
  2025-01-30 23:23 ` Anthony Sorace
@ 2025-01-30 23:45   ` joel.rees
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From: joel.rees @ 2025-01-30 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Thanks. My first memory that 32-bit addressing was necessary was correct. That's the information I needed. 
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