trying to be on here more often (again lol)

Back on my BS with my project to make a portable version of Unix V6 (from 1975) with a self-hosted pre-K&R C compiler, that could be released on anything that can at least simulate the memory model

Gonna start on a custom VM written in #Rust, but then port to the #C64 and probably also #ALtair8800!!

You can check out the progress on the kernel branch here: https://codeberg.org/popeyeotaku/popix/src/branch/kernel

Right now the compiler's almost done, with a bootstrapper compiler written in Rust. I'm about to start booting and bugfixing the kernel as soon as I extend the VM a tad

Still gotta gut the kernel by another several K, and write self-hosted assembler/linker package, and port userland. Also gonna write a custom YACC that uses less RAM

but it's coming along swimmingly!!!

#ancientUnix #C #Popix #C6T

I'd beened stalling on my #AncientUnix #Popix project, but it just got a big shot in the arm

I jus realized my #AncientC compiler had a bug where any initialized array came out twice as big as it was susposed to, fixing it has cut all my programs compiled in it by several K 😅😅

I was so worried about how on Eart' I was gonna slim everthin down enuf, now I don't gotta worry about any of that

so as a side project to my "port #AncientUnix Sixth Edition to 8-bit platforms," I've been noodling off an on for "port #AncientUnix Seventh Edition to the #C64 with a RAM Expander cart" and I think I've finally noodled up how that will work successfully

acourse't now i'm having weird issues wit simh to get a Unix V7 running to work more on it 😅😅 (if I know any Unix7 folks interestid in helping hmu hehe)

PFFFFT it turns out me #AncientUnix #Popix bug was caused on accouna me #AncientC #C6T compiler didn't handle multi-dim arrays correck 🙃 thas all fix't now tho 💪💪

here's hopin for the next bug to be nicer as I recompile