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Yet Another 6809 SBC [message #10377] Tue, 22 August 2023 21:14 Go to next message
doctorwkt is currently offline  doctorwkt
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Hey all, after a few months of work I've got a working 6809 SBC. This one is slightly different as the software side is very Unix-like. The project is at Github, search for DoctorWkt/Nine-E.

On the hardware side, there is:


  • a 6809 CPU,
  • 8K of ROM,
  • 54K of RAM,
  • a UART, and
  • access to a USB key for disk storage.
On the software side:


  • the xv6 filesystem code resides in ROM,
  • the libc and include files come mostly from Fuzix,
  • the userland applications come from Fuzix, Minix 1.5 and xv6.
There is no MMU and no clock device, so there isn't any multitasking (i.e. no fork(Wink, exec(Wink, time(Wink. Apart from that, what is able to work is pretty impressive.
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Re: Yet Another 6809 SBC [message #10378 is a reply to message #10377] Wed, 23 August 2023 08:15 Go to previous message
etchedpixels is currently offline  etchedpixels
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Nifty. Glad the Fuzix libraries were useful
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