[wellylug] Linux on Antique Boxen

Donald Gordon don at dis.org.nz
Tue Nov 26 13:45:26 NZDT 2002


> Donald Gordon wrote:

>>Any system that uses its main CPU as a substitute character generator
>> must have had some serious chip-count constraints :-)

> The ZX81 was a fantastic machine... the plastic keyboard was coffee
> proof and the 1k of memory prevented OOS in programmers as you would
> always run out of memory after coding for an hour.
>
> I would love it if Sir Clive put out a 'Sinclair - LinuX81' type machine

What would such a machine consist of?

If you can survive with only a Spectrum [what I had], there's a linux
emulator which runs under SVGAlib quite happily; I run it on my 486sx25
laptop when I'm bored :-)

don



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