I'm in the process of building a system like that for myself, but perhaps a little smaller - mine will be based on an embedded microprocessor I've developed (so much work still yet to do ! at least a year out). But are you familiar with the V7 port that Robert Nordier has done ? It's been mentioned here before: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2007-October/004782.html Here is his web site: https://edu.anarcho-copy.org/UNIX/unix-version-7/x86-port/www.nordier.com/v7x86/ On 12/20/2022 08:35 AM, Adam Thornton wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 8:29 AM Andy Kosela > wrote: > > On Tuesday, December 20, 2022, Adam Thornton > wrote: > > I mean, just a Unix, without all the cruft of a modern Linux, > but which can actually take advantage of the resources of a > modern machine. I don't care about a desktop, or even a > graphical environment, I don't care about all the strange > syscalls that are there to support particular databases, I > don't care much about being a virtualization host. > > > But then...what would the purpose of such a system? ... > It appears to me there is really no need for such a modern > mini-Unix system outside of hard core O/S theorists community. > > > I'm not asking for a _practical_ Christmas gift, and certainly not one > that will help me at work. As you say: at work I've got Kubernetes. > I think it would be aesthetically pleasing and fun to use. Need has > nothing to do with it. > > Adam