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by jmmv 59 days ago
I'm sorry but the landing page at fuzix.org (the top page nonetheless) is terrible as it does not even try to explain what FUZIX even IS. I went to the GitHub project page, which contains some more details, but it still doesn't answer the question and only talks about how FUZIX differs from UZI.

To be honest, I still have no idea what I'm looking at.

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>it does not even try to explain what FUZIX even IS

Fuzix is a very simple UNIX clone (and a for of UZI) started by Alan Cox, an ex-Linux kernel developer) as his retirement project.

It aims to run on old CPUs like Z80 and on microcontrollers. I found it when searching what OS can I run on the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico.

The GitHub repo also seems to be archived.
To quote the comment from higher on the page – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818363

« Oh, and don't be fooled by the archived status - it moved to

https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX »