Unix for 8080/Z80? [Re: WooHoo!! PC/XT Unix anyone?] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Feb 1999

Richard Erlacher wrote on 23 January 1999 23:08
...
 This notion of cooking up or breathing new life into an
old 8-bit model to
run *NIX is probably a mite more than has been considered for one reason.
*NIX tends to want to use virtual memory, without which many systems would
quickly choke.  The old CPM-capables don't support VM.  A good reason for
this is probably the lack of performance. 
Many people have added VM support to applications running on non-MMU
hardware with little loss of performance. The Amiga has a few of these, most
notably Personal Paint by Cloanto. It can be done.
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