DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix

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."

Comments

Re:cousin?

[kwerle]

Linux was originally host compiled on Minix. It's original filesystem was Minix compatible. Linus originally announced Linux on the Minix newsgroups. They're both *nixen. I think that cousin is a pretty good description. Though maybe Linux as a bastard child would be more accurate.

Re:But does it run.... ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Even more importantly, can't you guys realise that none of these jokes are funny?