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		actionfromafar 32 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Run ancient UNIX on modern hardware I can't pick up the caper (due to the customary backlog of insane projects), but IMHO someone™ should port RetroBSD¹ to more microcontrollers. There's even a C compiler² running on device! There's a UNIX shape void in the embedded world. Todays microcontrollers routinely come with several megabytes of RAM. 1: https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd 2: https://github.com/RetroBSD/retrobsd/tree/master/src/cmd/sma...

blippage 32 days ago [–]

There's also Fuzix, which is Unix-like. https://fuzix.org/

Supports Arm M0 (Raspberry Pi Pico), ESP32 and a variety of others, including Z80.

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