#ancientunix — Public Fediverse posts

EEHEEHEE lotta good work on this today, I'm trying to build it up to the point of execing an /etc/init that reads a file to a lil hello world!!

acourse't I'm still in the weeds on all the stack swapping multiprocessing low level muck, arghh hate this parta this kinda stuff -- but i've gotten SO FAR hehehe gonna head back to it tomorry

(I'm now on the init branch if y'all wanna check progress on the codeberg >:3)

#c #rust #unix #ancientUnix #compiler #popix #c6t

trying to be on here more often (again lol)

Back on my BS with my project to make a portable version of Unix V6 (from 1975) with a self-hosted pre-K&R C compiler, that could be released on anything that can at least simulate the memory model

Gonna start on a custom VM written in #Rust, but then port to the #C64 and probably also #ALtair8800!!

You can check out the progress on the kernel branch here: https://codeberg.org/popeyeotaku/popix/src/branch/kernel

Right now the compiler's almost done, with a bootstrapper compiler written in Rust. I'm about to start booting and bugfixing the kernel as soon as I extend the VM a tad

Still gotta gut the kernel by another several K, and write self-hosted assembler/linker package, and port userland. Also gonna write a custom YACC that uses less RAM

but it's coming along swimmingly!!!

#ancientUnix #C #Popix #C6T