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Running Ancient UNIX On Nintendo Gameboy

Posted by timothy on from the does-it-play-space-travel dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Amit Singh has a piece on his site about running the 5th edition UNIX distribution on a Nintendo Gameboy, of all things. Tons of screenshots and source included but what really makes this entertaining and informational in an ubergeekly sort of way is his side stories on UNIX history ... ARM CPU ... compiling and running random programs on the Gameboy, etc. There are even notes on recompiling the original Unix kernel to make it smaller for the GBA!"

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  1. Wow, that's great ... by evslin · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... but that guy better watch out. It'll be a race between Nintendo and SCO to see who can sue him first! ;)

  2. Old but funny by barcodez · · Score: 5, Funny

    Whenever I see stories like this I am reminded of Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

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  3. The Great Wall Tycoon.... by Himring · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nintendo has been in the gaming business since 1889.

    His dates are flawed. Nintendo's been making games since 475 B.C. when the first version of "The Great Wall Tycoon" came out. Man, talk about addictive....

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  4. Yes.. But by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    can it run a gameboy emulator??

  5. How to reboot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Control-Alt-Delete has been replaced by Up-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A