On Saturday 23 November 2002 08:13, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 00:57, bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> > Ok folks here is something that me and Diane are dying to find out.
> > My sister brought out a ole Apple IIe Pc to the house today.
> >
> > I found this on Linux Guruz webpage
> > http://foldoc.linuxguruz.org/foldoc.php?6502
> > I am wondering is there actually a version of Unix/Linux os that will
> > load on this thing?
>
> WOW, from my small amount of research this morning, it appears to be
> possible.
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%2B%226502+linux
>%22+%2Bapple
>
> I found a linux kernel out there running on a C64 too! No readily
> available distributions for either system though it seems. Let me know
> if you get any further with this, retro computing is one of my hobbies.
> ;-)
A fat monolithic linux kernel running on 64K C64. Unlikely, and generally
pointless. Implementing even a simple IP stack takes quite a bit of RAM.
Sure, there were memory expanders in the day, but they were never cheap or
even common.
Running a http server on a c64 is "interesting", but I'd have to draw the line
at some point.
The 6502 was a great processor to learn on. In elementary/high-school, I had
fun writing demos/intros and learning the VIC/SID/CIA hardware features that
made such tricks possible. However, outside of a VICE image with .d64 images
of my old development floppies, there simply isn't anything left on that
platform for me beyond reminiscing of simpler times.
-- - Ian C. Blenke <icblenke@nks.net>(This message bound by the following: http://www.nks.net/email_disclaimer.html)
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