The only Commodore UNIX that I know of is a System V-derivative (Amix) that ran on the A3000UX. I wasn't aware that they had any any x86-compatible UNIX projects. - Alex On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:58 AM, william degnan <billdegnan@gmail.com> wrote: > I always forget about the PC line. > > What might be fun is making a souped-up UNIX OS system out of one. See if > you can run that version of UNIX Commodore was playing around with, forget > the name. > b > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 3:04 AM, Baltissen, GJPAA (Ruud) >> <ruud.baltissen@apg.nl> wrote: >> > We are mainly talking about the 8-bitters. But I also tinker with PCs, >> the very old ones of course. And those include the Commodore ones. >> > >> > My questions: >> > >> > - Is anybody else on this list interested in the Commodore PCs? >> >> I have a Commodore PC-10 I need to repair - the NiCd battery leaked >> and I need to repair it (since I doubt I'll find a replacement >> mainboard easily). The damage is about 2cm x 5cm, so I'll have a >> number of passive components and a couple of ICs to remove before I >> can get into any trace repair. :-( >> >> > - If so, would anybody object discussing these PCs on this list? >> >> It seems not. >> >> By way of extending the discussion, I used to use this PC-10 to run my >> B&C Microsystems EPROM and GAL programmer. I put an 8-bit NIC in it >> and the proprietary parallel card for the device programmer. I used >> Kermit and its internal TCP/IP support (with a packet driver for my >> NIC) to get files into the machine. When the leaking battery killed >> the machine, I had to switch to a Compaq to burn my devices. I have >> to use an older machine with this programmer. There appear to be >> software timing loops that cause it not to function on anything faster >> than about a 16MHz 80286 (a 4.77-8Mhz 8088 is just fine). Even a >> 25Mhz 386 is "too fast". It must be something to do with how fast I/O >> bus accesses are when the ISA bus is _not_ directly connected to the >> CPU. I never investigated wait state or other options. It was just >> easier to keep an old machine working than investigate new machines. >> >> I do have the XT-IDE drive for mine, but I don't have a lot of spares, >> so when that disk drive dies, I'll probably have to switch to an ISA >> disk - fortunately, I have one or two 8-bit SCSI cards with boot ROMs, >> so I won't have to find a working MFM drive. >> >> -ethan >> >> Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list >> > > > > -- > Bill > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2015-10-15 17:00:07
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