[aclug-L] Re: WAY too much time on your hands when you write a lunix for c64

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I installed that about 5 years ago, back when I still saw a fading glimpse
of usefulness in a C-64.  I didn't bother installing it on a C-64 though,
mind you.  That would have required dusting off some old computers. 
Instead, I just emulated my C-64 on my 386 (which was the fastest machine I
owned at the time), and ran Lunix under C-64 emulation.

The 386 made C-64 software run faster than it would have actually run on a
C-64.... however, Lunix was still too slow and primative to be worth even
attempting to use at the time.

Perhaps if I wanted to spend several hundred dollars on a 20Mhz CPU, 512k
RAM upgrade, and a hard drive for my C-64, it would be worth using.

However, I'd rather spend half the money on building an entirely new Athlon
600 or so, with 128mb RAM and 30gb HD, and use real Linux :-)


On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:08:02PM -0500, james l wrote:
> This should qualify for the Most worthless time on your hands award
> 
> This is sad, but as there is a c64 user in our midst, I thought it would be
> fun. Someone wrote a "little unix" for the commodore 64.
> 
> It is multi tasking, open source, serial terminal accessable, and not written
> by microsoft.
> 
> http://www.heilbronn.netsurf.de/~dallmann/lunix/lunix.html
> 
> Maybe John will have a use for those 50 or so c64s laying around now ;)
> 
> James L.
> 
> 
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