From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6PHx-0006CL-TO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:32:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9B57E04BA; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f52.google.com (mail-qw0-f52.google.com [209.85.216.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82FCCE04BA for ; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb8 with SMTP id 8so4068823qwb.11 for ; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:30:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1e/IoRWynRUCBIbvoqLlSlHmRakTCbMNcJ8LJm9T9t8=; b=SfmAZsJDoz6KhgRpuN+xHk2RAFSHgteMR5p+9689QwbtMO1MwtQ06kC2kY8tA64v+R hSJ4EHijHLdIavNSKkxMkD6cbo48f0sFO1wC10IvYrVVSIpJCv7lxq/bHKHyjPpFK24b Cqe8dRHAyBhKaI5SLHROMWNpE8O5eITFwgKQU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=PqNEDFqXb8QM3LQisE1WuZLZrzfBNulhXH6TBP7WqqOU0gnb/xT32joS50vZcBLqSp CQwie1V8zcVUttuRGcYFLGhaqPfBDR4HfCpvmezCLn/WMH0WR6VNzkLBivht9KNVxR31 pujuvwkYgH8y6IVA8ThB9FnPGIbeuI8yc4I3k= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.69.197 with SMTP id a5mr4749977qcj.273.1301844641932; Sun, 03 Apr 2011 08:30:41 -0700 (PDT) Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.110.11 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Apr 2011 08:30:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4D984620.4060707@gmail.com> References: <1301684371.55806.3.camel@victoria> <1301689709.145877.12.camel@victoria> <1301745957.652513.5.camel@victoria> <4D9713CB.50203@gmail.com> <4D97D6F4.50707@gmail.com> <20110403104724.6e6894fb@digimed.co.uk> <4D984620.4060707@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:30:41 +0000 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Vy55ZR6068nxHrEVddfNFYIGrsA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How low can you go? From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 274f049be9055e6f8e3bae05e74ddaa6 On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:09:56 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> >>> I wonder if we could put Linux on a old Vic-20? =A0I think I got one ou= t >>> in the old shed somewhere. >>> >> >> It's been done on a C-64, but I think a 3.5KB box with no mass storage >> might be a little too challenging. >> >> > > I had the little cassette thing to store my stuff on. =A0I think the OS i= n on > a ROM which would be hard to get around unless the ROM was changed. =A0Th= en it > may not really be a Vic-20 anymore. =A0I'm not sure about the C64 since I= got > me a 20Mhz oscilloscope to work on TVs and stuff. =A0I still got the scop= e > tho. The first UNIX system was on a PDP-7 with 8K of memory and loaded by paper tape... so you never know what might be possible. :)