* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
@ 2015-12-27 4:30 Larry McVoy
2015-12-27 4:37 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-27 4:40 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2015-12-27 4:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
I must be the only guy here who browses reddit (or I missed someone
else posting this).
This dude ported 5th edition to a game boy. I'll admit my non coolness
by saying I don't know what a game boy is but I'm guessing it's some
video game thingy.
http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/gbaunix/
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 4:30 [TUHS] Unix on a game boy Larry McVoy
@ 2015-12-27 4:37 ` Larry McVoy
2015-12-27 4:40 ` Dave Horsfall
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From: Larry McVoy @ 2015-12-27 4:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
So I just saw the title and posted, now I'm reading it, this guy is
pretty cool, he seems to know a lot. I would vote for inviting him
to this list.
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 08:30:42PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I must be the only guy here who browses reddit (or I missed someone
> else posting this).
>
> This dude ported 5th edition to a game boy. I'll admit my non coolness
> by saying I don't know what a game boy is but I'm guessing it's some
> video game thingy.
>
> http://www.kernelthread.com/publications/gbaunix/
--
---
Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 4:30 [TUHS] Unix on a game boy Larry McVoy
2015-12-27 4:37 ` Larry McVoy
@ 2015-12-27 4:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-27 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2015-12-27 4:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:
> This dude ported 5th edition to a game boy. I'll admit my non coolness
> by saying I don't know what a game boy is but I'm guessing it's some
> video game thingy.
Pretty much, yeah, along with PS/2 (and/or whatever). I'm surprised that
they chose Ed5, as Penguin/OS is normally the choice for weird devices.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 4:40 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2015-12-27 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2015-12-27 11:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-28 1:35 ` Dan Cross
2015-12-28 17:58 ` Brad Spencer
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From: Steve Nickolas @ 2015-12-27 6:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
>> This dude ported 5th edition to a game boy. I'll admit my non coolness
>> by saying I don't know what a game boy is but I'm guessing it's some
>> video game thingy.
>
> Pretty much, yeah, along with PS/2 (and/or whatever). I'm surprised that
> they chose Ed5, as Penguin/OS is normally the choice for weird devices.
Well, if it's what I remember, it's a Game Boy Advance, which has an ARM
CPU along with the nerfed Z80 of the original Game Boy. Bit more
Unix-friendly than an actual Game Boy. ;)
Though, the DS, which was its successor, does have a Linux port.
-uso.
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas
@ 2015-12-27 11:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-27 17:51 ` John Cowan
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From: Dave Horsfall @ 2015-12-27 11:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> Well, if it's what I remember, it's a Game Boy Advance, which has an ARM
> CPU along with the nerfed Z80 of the original Game Boy. Bit more
> Unix-friendly than an actual Game Boy. ;)
>
> Though, the DS, which was its successor, does have a Linux port.
All the same, I'd probably go for either NetBSD or DragonFly.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 11:23 ` Dave Horsfall
@ 2015-12-27 17:51 ` John Cowan
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From: John Cowan @ 2015-12-27 17:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dave Horsfall scripsit:
>
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2015, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> > Well, if it's what I remember, it's a Game Boy Advance, which has an ARM
> > CPU along with the nerfed Z80 of the original Game Boy. Bit more
> > Unix-friendly than an actual Game Boy. ;)
Just so.
> All the same, I'd probably go for either NetBSD or DragonFly.
The constraints are pretty tight. The GBA has 32K of on-chip RAM and 256K
of off-chip RAM. Cartridges have 32M of ROM, so the system disk is stored
in ROM with a shadow overlay in RAM. In any case there is no keyboard
or other character input device: all it can do is run a preprogrammed
set of commands in the shell. So running an ancyent Unixe on SIMH makes
a lot of sense, since the device can never be anything practical.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
Assent may be registered by a signature, a handshake, or a click of a computer
mouse transmitted across the invisible ether of the Internet. Formality
is not a requisite; any sign, symbol or action, or even willful inaction,
as long as it is unequivocally referable to the promise, may create a contract.
--Specht v. Netscape
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 4:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-27 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas
@ 2015-12-28 1:35 ` Dan Cross
2015-12-28 17:58 ` Brad Spencer
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From: Dan Cross @ 2015-12-28 1:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
To be fair, it's not so much a port of 5th Edition to the game boy, but
rather a port of a stripped down older version of SIMH's PDP-11 emulator
that is running a PDP 5th ed. It's still a great hack, of course....
On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> > This dude ported 5th edition to a game boy. I'll admit my non coolness
> > by saying I don't know what a game boy is but I'm guessing it's some
> > video game thingy.
>
> Pretty much, yeah, along with PS/2 (and/or whatever). I'm surprised that
> they chose Ed5, as Penguin/OS is normally the choice for weird devices.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
2015-12-27 4:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-12-27 6:34 ` Steve Nickolas
2015-12-28 1:35 ` Dan Cross
@ 2015-12-28 17:58 ` Brad Spencer
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From: Brad Spencer @ 2015-12-28 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Sat, 26 Dec 2015, Larry McVoy wrote:
> This dude ported 5th edition to a game boy. I'll admit my non coolness
> by saying I don't know what a game boy is but I'm guessing it's some
> video game thingy.
Pretty much, yeah, along with PS/2 (and/or whatever). I'm surprised that
they chose Ed5, as Penguin/OS is normally the choice for weird devices.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
It is running V5 in SIMH on the Gameboy. Pretty nifty, however, the ARM
processor varient does not have a memory manager, so I suspect that it had
to be something simpler then one of the modern systems. This wasn't a
bare iron port.
If you go to the page, he does not one of the early BSD systems running in
SIMH on it too.
--
Brad Spencer - brad at anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS
http://anduin.eldar.org - & - http://anduin.ipv6.eldar.org [IPv6 only]
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* [TUHS] Unix on a game boy
@ 2015-12-27 20:02 Norman Wilson
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From: Norman Wilson @ 2015-12-27 20:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
The real question: has anyone connected an RK05 to
a Game Boy?
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
(Know what both of those are, have ever used only one)
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