DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix 313
DeviceGuru writes "Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the open-source Minix OS — a cousin of Linux — running on his homebrew minicomputer, the Magic-1, at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. The Magic-1 minicomputer is built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, and implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA. Rather than using a commercial microprocessor, Buzbee created his own microcoded CPU that runs at 4.09 MHz, and is in the same ballpark as an old 8086 in performance and capabilities. The CPU has a 22-bit physical address bus and an 8-bit data bus."
But does it run.... ? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But does it run.... ? (Score:2, Funny)
Next step (Score:5, Funny)
cousin? (Score:5, Funny)
That must be the same sense in which Dick Cheney is "a cousin of" Barak Obama.
Is there a kit version? (Score:3, Funny)
Memory chips? (Score:3, Funny)
Core memory? Hey kids, instead of stringing popcorn this holiday, we are gonna do memory cores!
Cool none the less.
Re:Minix was Sire of Linux (Score:5, Funny)
Re:But does it run.... ? (Score:1, Funny)
More importantly, can you watch porn with it?
Re:cousin? (Score:5, Funny)
Heh heh heh... (Score:5, Funny)
Except when I'm working on it, Magic-1 is connected to the net. It serves web pages at http://www.magic-1.org [magic-1.org]
Not any more!
(I know, I know, some of you might be thinking..."How could you be so cruel as to post a link on
Re:Is there a kit version? (Score:4, Funny)
Part 1 [jameco.com]
Part 2 [jameco.com]
Good Luck
Re:Is there a kit version? (Score:3, Funny)
Debugging Tool [gunbroker.com]
The blinky lights... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Heh heh heh... (Score:5, Funny)
I thought this kind of work was dead. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:To evade whitelists (Score:2, Funny)
meh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yawn (Score:2, Funny)
Or even worse, they'd wire the multihop nets in a daisy chain pattern.
Re:Minix was Sire of Linux (Score:2, Funny)
Wonder if he'll warrant a Slashdot story in about 15 years when he homebrews a 3D graphics card?
Re:But does it run.... ? (Score:5, Funny)
How many concurrent users? (Score:5, Funny)
4Mb RAM, 4MHz CPU, 500Kb ram disk - Minix: ?
Re:But does it run.... ? (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm. If you understand that humor is subjective, you will realize that what you've just posted is stupid. Alternately, if you think humor is objective, well, then you're just plain stupid.
Your post could be made in a way that doesn't make you look stupid. You could say, "Don't you people realize that I don't find any of these jokes funny?" Of course, posted that way, it makes it rather clear what a self-centered individual you are. Why would they refrain from posting things some people do find funny, just because you don't? And why can't you just skip over content that doesn't interest you, rather than complain anytime anything is posted that you didn't care to see? Does it really bother you that much that you're not the center of the universe?
Re:Next step (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doomsday paranoia (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Family Analogy (Score:3, Funny)
Re:But does it run.... ? (Score:5, Funny)
But does it support the TCP Evil Bit?
A decent job, but if he was serious.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:meh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That means his wife got laid, if they are hers (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe not
Matthew,Chapter 1, rev.1 (Score:1, Funny)
... yadda, yadda, yadda,
... and Multics begat Unix; and Unix begat Minix and his brethren; and Minix begat Linux