10 Dec
1997
10 Dec
'97
7:39 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Allison J Parent wrote:
[snip]
No way, UZI is fairly tight and minimal V7 and want
32k for itself and 32k
for apps and a disk (hard disk) to implement total swapping of the swapable
sections of the app or UZI.
UNIX and varients are a relatively large system OS and doesn't fit well
on most 8bit cpus especially if written in C due to code inefficentcy
from a lack of a full indexed/indirect addressing modes that C expects.
(common on PDP11 and other minis). The 8086 is a bit better but the
^^^^^
Maybe it should be ported here instead?
:)