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Wait, am I reading that right? Debian 6 runs on the Atari ST with automatic hardware detection? Can it `ssh brow.sh`?
by tombh 7y ago
Wait, am I reading that right? Debian 6 runs on the Atari ST with automatic hardware detection?
Can it `ssh brow.sh`?
- minimaul 7y agoNo, you’re definitely reading it wrong ;) This is just connecting up a serial console, nothing more.
- tombh 7y agoI see, so the hardware detection is from the modern machine detecting the serial port. That truly is the definition of a terminal then. Still, pretty cool!
- 0815test 7y agoDebian does have an unofficial m68k port, although I'm not sure how well it runs on this specific hardware. SSH from vintage hardware is a pain btw, there is YT video somewhere of someone SSH'ing out from a 486-compatible "586" box with a modern Linux install, and the overhead introduced by SSH is quite real there.
- walkingolof 7y agoIt won’t run on an ST, but a Atari TT can run *nix like OS’s
- cmrdporcupine 7y agoTT can actually run full Unix. Atari sold a full SYS V Unix for it, and later on NetBSD was ported to it. m68k Linux also ran on it at one point, I believe. Classic ST can't do it, because no MMU. On them we had MiNT, which was a Unix-like extension to TOS. Ran fine on an ST with a 1MB or so of RAM. At various times I ran a full suite of Unix ports... bash, emacs, nn, vi, the whole nine yards. There was also a port of the MGR window system. But the machines with an '030 (TT And Falcon) could run a proper Unix. Including X11. I remember even seeing discussion of this in UnixWorld magazine back in the day.
- Annatar 7y agoAtari ST has an alternative operating system called MiNT and RPM-based SpareMiNT, which is a UNIX-like operating system, but still TOS compatible. http://sparemint.org/Welcome-to-SpareMiNT http://sparemint.org/Welcome-to-SpareMiNT