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ben_w • yesterday at 10:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Mmm. Or improve the OSes themselves.

At this point, they could likely decompile MacOS classic and rework it to give it modern memory protection, virtual memory, preemptive multitasking, and networking.

I assume booting an OS with a mere few megabytes of RAM footprint would only take milliseconds?


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hadlock • yesterday at 11:24 PM

I am in the middle of doing this with apple's System 6 and adding a posix-compliant shell under the codename bluetail, and working my way up, i've got it booting with an os, busybox, openssh and stuff. Boots on a raspberry pi 3 A+ bare metal (And qemu, of course). And full usb MIDI support, because (I said so, and) there's actually an incredible catalog of early DAW software that will run on System 6. And pretty decent usb ethernet, sound, webcam etc etc. The future of hobby software is wild.

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