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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] maybe off-topic: Unix on a microcontroller
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 08:25:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfop7o89gJMC79myU_KRC7kuzXfnmh82k3ben=mVVJ41dg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7w8t7gcsk3.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>

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On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 3:22 AM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> wrote:

> Arnold wrote:
> > https://hackaday.com/2018/06/03/its-unix-on-a-microcontroller/
>
> It says PDP-11 right in the article, so it must be on topic.
>
> RetroBSD is a different take.  Instead of running a PDP-11 emulator on
> the microcontroller, they ported 2.11BSD to run on the metal:
>
> http://retrobsd.org/


It looks like retrobsd hasn't been active in the last couple of years
though. A cool accomplishment, but with some caveats. All the network is in
userland, not the kernel, for example.

Warner

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-15 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-15  9:12 arnold
2018-06-15  9:22 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2018-06-15 14:25   ` Warner Losh [this message]
2018-06-15 19:09     ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2018-06-15 19:12       ` Warner Losh
     [not found] <mailman.1.1529114402.31005.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-16 19:13 ` Johnny Billquist
2018-06-16 19:24 Noel Chiappa
2018-06-17 10:27 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
     [not found] <mailman.1.1529200802.30486.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-06-17  9:36 ` Johnny Billquist

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