Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!fylstra.tsca@sri-unix From: fylstra.tsca@sri-unix@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: S-100 Unix Message-ID: <1748@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jun-83 17:16:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1748 Posted: Fri Jun 3 17:16:00 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jun-83 23:54:52 EDT Lines: 16 Jerry -- here's an idea for your friends at Godbout... I wish one of the S-100 manufacturers of a 68K cpu board for the S-100 bus (Godbout, Dual, Cromemco, ERG, ...) would package Unix with their 68K board. I'd love to throw away my Z80 cpu and roll my own Unix system with the remaining S-100 parts (chassis, memory, peripherals) rather than junking it and buying into the UnixBox market at $8-20K. What you'd need would be a relocatable version of the Unix kernel into which you'd bind your own home-made device drivers and real-time clock; you'd have to create a file system on your hard disk and install a customized version of the booter. This may be beyond the ability of most S-100 users, but then... we figured out how to use SYSGEN and MOVCPM and how to customize our BIOS, didn't we? Dave Fylstra