From: Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:34:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b55bfc3a-2d71-13c1-43f4-d05b5cbd0164@kilonet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7C45A7D2-1FE9-46F0-AA31-396671704214@kdbarto.org>
On 1/20/2020 1:09 PM, David Barto wrote:
> My memory as well. A friend and I got ahold of the complete set of chips
> and started to build out the hardware for a Unix box. We got most of the
> way there too, and then the odd quirks started showing up. We tracked
> some of them to our layout and the others to the NS chips. Then we gave
> it up as a “ah, it would have been nice if only” project.
A friend of mine and I did the same, but with 68000. I wrote the
assembler and other utilities, he did the hardware design (although we
both took turns critiquing each other's work), and we both (and his
girlfriend) did the wire-wrapping.
We were eventually consumed by other real-life happenings, and it fell
by the wayside, but looking back at it now, UNIX would have been the
perfect choice. I did have visions of grandeur that I would write my own
OS for it - I'm sure I would have eventually learned my lesson ;)
art k.
PS: We cheated, and used static RAM. A few failed development projects
at my (then) current place of employment, and no one knew what to do
with "all these chips" that were left over. No problem, I know what to
do with them... they wound up in the trunk of my Triumph TR7
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-17 16:01 [TUHS] On the origins of Linux - "an academic question" Arrigo Triulzi
2020-01-17 16:53 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-17 17:08 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2020-01-17 17:25 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-17 19:59 ` Arno Griffioen
2020-01-18 3:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-18 4:19 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-18 15:25 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-18 16:19 ` reed
2020-01-19 2:49 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-19 3:12 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-19 3:47 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Warren Toomey
2020-01-19 3:51 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-19 3:58 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-01-19 13:25 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-19 13:48 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20 3:32 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-20 3:51 ` George Michaelson
2020-01-20 3:59 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Jon Forrest
2020-01-20 17:19 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Clem Cole
2020-01-20 17:49 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-20 19:00 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20 18:04 ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-20 18:09 ` David Barto
2020-01-20 18:34 ` Arthur Krewat [this message]
2020-01-20 19:18 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20 19:46 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-20 20:15 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 6:58 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD Lars Brinkhoff
2020-01-21 14:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 17:17 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-21 17:22 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-21 17:25 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-21 18:43 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 18:44 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 19:14 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-21 20:27 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-22 0:14 ` [TUHS] Early Linux and BSD (was: On the origins of Linux - "an academic question") Greg A. Woods
2020-01-21 0:44 ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-20 19:09 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-20 19:51 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-20 23:04 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-21 0:13 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-21 23:45 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-01-18 15:30 ` [TUHS] On the origins of Linux - "an academic question" Larry McVoy
2020-01-17 23:11 ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-01-17 23:20 ` Rob Pike
2020-01-17 23:38 ` Brantley Coile
2020-01-18 0:23 ` Wesley Parish
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