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Re: Unixisms on top of P8?
My original reply seems to have gotten eaten.
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, mdj wrote:
I've always felt this was quite feasible on expanded IIe's and IIc's
using RamWorks compatible memory cards. I'm sure you can make it work
for 'academic' purposes with 128k, but I'm not sure I see the point.
Doesn't need to multitask. It could prolly run a limited number of tasks
in 128K.
That's the issue. If you're going to be Unixy, the overhead of the
fork() operation is going to become quite significant unless you focus
on keeping essential binaries like the shell very small.
Well, if it helps there's the Minix "Forsyth shell" which is a lighter V7
Bourne shell...
I can't see too many programs that would need to execute others, in the
base userland (just sh and bc)...
-uso.