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FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful

34 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 7 stories, 27 comments · first 2014-10-31 · latest 2026-04-18

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  1. …thrown in for good measure. Various learnings and tricks from ELKS and from OMU also got blended in https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX#what-does-fuzix-have-o...
    comment by wyldfire · 2026-04-18 · in Fuzix OS
  2. Alan Cox has a "Fuzix" repo, that puts together Uzix variants for the Z80. https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by bediger4000 · 2023-05-13 · in Dec's OS-like RSX-11M for the Z280 CPU
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    FuzixOS
    story by indigodaddy · 2022-01-06 · 0 comments
  4. …kipedia.org/wiki/Coherent_(operating_system) [4] Minix - https://www.minix3.org [5] Alan Cox' Fuzix - https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX [6] Ardi Executor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executor_(software)
    comment by johndoe0815 · 2021-08-31 · in Brooks, Wirth and Go
  5. How about FUZIX? It might be a better fit for vintage computers? https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by dukoid · 2021-05-06 · in Linux Has Largely Abandoned Still-Useful Near-Vintage Computers
  6. Related includes: Fuzix: https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX Uzi: http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html
    comment by tyingq · 2021-02-28 · in Unix Implementation for MSX (2005)
  7. See also: FUZIX - https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX It's roughly the same idea, but actively maintained and runs on a wider range of hardware.
    comment by jstanley · 2021-02-28 · in Unix Implementation for MSX (2005)
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    FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
    story by ingve · 2021-02-09 · 0 comments
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    FuzixOS: A Unix-like system for 8-bit micros
    story by fanf2 · 2021-01-04 · 0 comments
  10. …the memory, or how the display works, etc. If it can, that would be a very cool little toy. [1] https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX Edit: Surprisingly, many still on eBay. Just bought one for $19.65, in the original box, including…
    comment by tyingq · 2020-04-03 · in Cidco MailStation as a Z80 Development Platform
  11. …Alan Cox's Fuzix, a unix for 8-bit machines (including many of the aforementioned Z80 machines): https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX Most of the folks mentioned can be found on the retro-comp discussion group, which was formed from…
    comment by Gracana · 2020-03-21 · in Build an 8-bit home computer with 5 chips
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    FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
    story by kick · 2019-10-28 · 0 comments
  13. FUZIX is a tiny UNIX that runs on a Z80 using memory banking rather than an MMU. https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by caf · 2019-10-21 · in Compiling my own SPARC CPU inside a cheap FPGA
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    FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
    story by ingve · 2019-06-30 · 0 comments
  15. Or FUZIX https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by aquabeagle · 2019-04-27 · in Linux on an 8-Bit Micro? (2012)
  16. …Comes with prepackaged CP/M images and can run Alan Cox's amazing FUZIX system: https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX https://hackaday.com/2017/04/16/z80-fuzix-is-like-old-fashio...
    comment by nineteen999 · 2018-07-25 · in Altair 8800 Simulator
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    Z80 Unix-Like OS from Amstrad NC100/NC200 to ZX Spectrum 128K
    story by chx · 2018-04-16 · 0 comments
  18. …(link to code broken) or the more ambitious (a Unix-like OS on Z80, 6809, 6502, 68000, and others) https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX (with ‘Lots more bugs right now’ than UZI) This is a nice hack, but not as cool as those projects.
    comment by Someone · 2017-12-04 · in Linux on an 8-bit microcontroller
  19. https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2 http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php (Related projects). https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX There are other 8Bit unix-likes as well.
    comment by vhodges · 2017-09-04 · in Ask HN: Is there a Unix for really bad hardware?
  20. you should definitely take a look at Fuzix, https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by geijoenr · 2017-06-15 · in Z-Berry: Z-80 computer
  21. I have a reasonably portable pure-ANSI-C Forth here in about 2.5kloc: https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/blob/master/Applicatio... It's not well commented, but it should be easy enough to read. It passes the basic ANS Forth test suite.…
    comment by david-given · 2017-02-01 · in Show HN: A Lispy, embedded Forth
  22. There's a more recent version: https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/blob/master/Applicatio... I spent some time making it work on modern machines, and it's... I don't really want to use the word 'bad'; because I don't think it is. I kept…
    comment by david-given · 2016-09-26 · in Appropriate Uses for SQLite
  23. …that I must get round to fixing one day (hilariously, the Pi has more RAM than Fuzix can handle)... https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX Both of those run natively, of course.
    comment by david-given · 2016-09-20 · in Linux on an 8-bit micro? (2012)
  24. …that's a single file containing shell (a tiny bit), awk, C, and (a limited dialect of) Forth. https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/blob/master/Applicatio... The awk byte-compiles the initial Forth dictionary into the C file; if you edit…
    comment by david-given · 2016-09-01 · in Code that is valid in both PHP and Java, and produces the same output in both
  25. …hardware. [0] https://github.com/marioaugustorama/uzix-kernel [1] http://symbos.de/ Edit: forgot; https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by tluyben2 · 2016-06-30 · in CP/M development environment setup
  26. Never mind Alan Cox's Fuzix project. https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by digi_owl · 2016-06-19 · in The RC2014 Retro Computer
  27. …competency of doing easy text processing beautifully. The most recent thing I wrote in it was this: https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/blob/master/Applicatio... That's a C file which is also an executable shell script which contains an…
    comment by david-given · 2016-01-14 · in Show HN: 3D shooter in your terminal using raycasting in Awk
  28. …it in anger, but passes the basic ANS Forth tests, so it should be reasonably complete. (It's here: https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/blob/master/Applicatio... It's a single, portable C file which is also an executable shell script…
    comment by david-given · 2015-11-27 · in Show HN: Easy Forth
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    Fuzix OS: Alan Cox's POSIX Unix for Zilog 8-bit Z80
    story by emersonrsantos · 2015-07-27 · 0 comments
  30. …Alan Cox's Fuzix OS which goal is to "provide a complete System V experience, without the bloat" ( https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX ).
    comment by emersonrsantos · 2015-07-27 · in Brazil Is An Alternate Video Game Universe Where Sega Beat Nintendo
  31. …is a multi-tasking, multi-user operating for the Zilog Z180 family of microprocessors.", from https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX/tree/master/Kernel .
    comment by dalke · 2014-12-24 · in Linux on an 8-bit micro (2012)
  32. This guy is amazing, look at his projects! Really inspiring. Related (you may know it already): https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX Implementing a VM is an interesting way to workaround some Harvard architecture's limitations as long as…
    comment by reidrac · 2014-12-24 · in Linux on an 8-bit micro (2012)
  33. direct link to the Github project, though the parent post on G+ does have good Q&A :) https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX
    comment by codezero · 2014-11-03 · in Alan Cox announces Fuzix OS
  34. …it's fun.... and it's halloween which as an ex Red Hatter is kind of the right day for a release https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX "
    comment by Zenst · 2014-10-31 · in Fuzix OS