Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Nov 2007 15:45 UTC
"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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Grab yourself a copy of 'Code' by Charles Petzold, sure it's from Microsoft press, but the contents has nothing at all to do with them. It will explain exactly how a CPU works right down at the low level, and will very quickly get you to a place where you could think about building a project similar to this, though a not as fancy. After that, 'Inside the Machine' by Jon Stokes will give you a more abstracted understanding of how modern processors work. I really can't recommend Code enough, just get it, seriously!
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2006-03-12
I don't read that as an accusation at all. It's for people who haven't heard of Minix to have some idea of what it is, and it's a pretty good choice of analogy: they share a grandfather in Unix.
This guy's pretty amazing. I was beginning to think these low-level skills had been lost now that the technology pyramid is built so high and the goal is to keep heaping things on top. I would love to have such a thorough understanding of technology.