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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. but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does it run the new Xorg?

  2. Re:Great web site and a good read by erick99 · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I did not realize that! Oh well, I stand corrected.

    Cheers,

    Erick

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  3. And also ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But does it run Linux?

  4. The Emipre of Atlantium MUST BE STOPPED! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Empire of Atlantium is a evil micronation! Please help in our campaign to get rid of it once and for all!

  5. Nice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Though i find this project more interesting.
    Shall this work on that?

  6. Re:NetBSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You are the single biggest fucking moron I have ever met.

  7. MOD DOWN PARENT, GOATSE-STYLE link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mod him down, please, my eyes burn !!

    1. Re:MOD DOWN PARENT, GOATSE-STYLE link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The post is already modded down you moronic dipshit. Put on some fucking glasses you stupid cunt.

  8. Perhaps this customer wasn't crazy. by t7 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "When I was working for a software company, one day I got a call from a customer wondering if we had WordPerfect for the Gameboy. I said "No, but I'll call you when it comes in." Sometimes it's better to go along with the customer and not ask any questions. :)" - Dumb Users

    Perhaps he was just "ahead of his time".

    Free iPods? Sure. freeipods.com

  9. Re:DON'T CLICK LINK by LnxAddct · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Man I hate trolls. No I don't have a browser hijacking trojan/virus. You are just a troll trying to convince more folks to click the link.
    Regards,
    Steve