Re: Linux on the TI-89/92[+]???

From: Radovan Garabik (garabik@atlas13.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 04:19:56 EST


On Wed, 17 May 2000 23:48:39 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

 : A TI-85 is Zilog Z80 based (actually a single chip by Toshiba), so no
 : luck there. A 92+ has probably enough ram & flash to run uClinux -
 : uClinux doesn't need a MMU. 89, 92 and 92+ have a M68000-like processor,
 : I think something like ColdFire. It doesn't have a MMU so normal Linux
 : is out of question.

actually, you have better possibilities with z80:
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~adrcunha/uzix/
you just need a bit more memory (128 KB or so), as kernel itself takes
about 32KB RAM (now compare it with linux :-))

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