Re: Can a GS run Linux?

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

"Linards Ticmanis" <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote in message 
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> Gene Linkoski wrote:
>
>>>> Can a GS run any flavor of Linux, even a most basic version or is it
>>>> simply out of the GS's capability?
>>> I doubt it. A MMU that supports paging is a minimum requirement for any
>>> reasonably standard Linux, and as far as I know the GS doesn't have one.
>>
>> What about Minix? It ran on an IBM PC XT.
>
> My point wasn't that no Unix clone is possible on a GS, but rather that
> *Linux* couldn't work. Unless you redefine the term "Linux" in a very
> broad way.

    If you wish to rewrite Linux from scratch to run Apple IIgs, give a try. 
It would be non-Linux when it does not need protected mode and memory 
paging.  If GS/OS 7.0 (unreleased version) is written perfect without bugs, 
it will never overwrite to other memory while two or more applications are 
running at the same time.  I wish Linux, Windows XP / Vista, and other 
operating system do not need protected mode and use flat real mode to handle 
more than 4GB RAM.  Beware unless you use language compiler like C++ or 
Fortran compiler to write your source code.  You can accidently overwrite 
RAM while your source code is compiled to run while other applications are 
running without protected mode.  It may crash and shut down whole operating 
system.
    I wish you to be perfect programmer.  It does not.

Bryan Parkoff