This always manages to put a smile on my face. This is a pointless but awesome technical achievement, and in the spirit of the old definition of "hacker".
> It takes about 2 hours to boot to bash prompt<p>While Bellard's JSLinux can boot to bash prompt in seconds. Still both are mind blowing projects!
(2012) but still awesome :)<p>see also previous discussion <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5581851" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5581851</a>
I expected something along the lines of <a href="http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html</a> (link to code broken) or the more ambitious (a Unix-like OS on Z80, 6809, 6502, 68000, and others) <a href="https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/EtchedPixels/FUZIX</a> (with ‘Lots more bugs right now’ than UZI)<p>This is a nice hack, but not as cool as those projects.
A great book for stuff like this.<p>"The Embedded Linux Primer" by Christopher Hallinan.<p><a href="https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004AE3IA6&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_8HxjAbQ6BJ865" rel="nofollow">https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B004AE3IA6&preview=new...</a>