Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Nov 2007 15:45 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes "Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS - a cousin of Linux [I beg your pardon?] - running on his homebrew minicomputer, today at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. Magic-1, built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA."
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Nice to see
by Downix on Sun 4th Nov 2007 16:30 UTC
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2007-08-21

I'd classify this as more interesting than any of the latest "umpteenth-power" processors I find on the market. While not as sexy, there's something wholesome and more entertaining with knowing how every bit of your system works, and how to change it.