[TUHS] maybe off-topic: Unix on a microcontroller

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Sat Jun 16 00:25:03 AEST 2018


On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 3:22 AM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Arnold wrote:
> > https://hackaday.com/2018/06/03/its-unix-on-a-microcontroller/
>
> It says PDP-11 right in the article, so it must be on topic.
>
> RetroBSD is a different take.  Instead of running a PDP-11 emulator on
> the microcontroller, they ported 2.11BSD to run on the metal:
>
> http://retrobsd.org/


It looks like retrobsd hasn't been active in the last couple of years
though. A cool accomplishment, but with some caveats. All the network is in
userland, not the kernel, for example.

Warner
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