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I expect that there will be some kind of default OS released with the game, and that many alternatives will pop up very quickly. It will not run Linux, because
by Zaak 15y ago
I expect that there will be some kind of default OS released with the game, and that many alternatives will pop up very quickly.
It will not run Linux, because Linux requires a 32-bit CPU with megabytes of RAM. Someone might write a Linux-like system for it though.
- jiggy2011 15y agoMost likely it won't need anything other than some very basic firmware which would be part of the emulator. It is unlikely to need any mechanism for managing drivers for example (unless you can build custom hardware). You might need some form of scheduler if you are running different programs to do different stuff (weapons , engines , navigation) but this could be something very simple and again baked into the emulator. Some form of shell might be nice, but again not necessarily required.
- Zaak 15y agoYou could run your spaceship computer like that, but you could also install a multitasking system that allows you to download files from your favorite space BBS while playing a game of solitaire and plotting the course to your next mining asteroid.
- jiggy2011 15y agoNotch suggested on twitter that there would be more than 1 CPU for each ship , so I imagine multitasking would work that way.
- tlrobinson 15y agoNot to mention a MMU. Of course that didn't stop someone from implementing an ARM emulator on an AVR and running Linux on it... http://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/building-the-worst-linux-pc-ever/ http://hackaday.com/2012/03/28/building-the-worst-linux-pc-e...
- ricardobeat 15y agoThe project website: http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%208bit http://dmitry.co/index.php?p=./04.Thoughts/07.%20Linux%20on%...
- Zaak 15y agoActually, uClinux doesn't require an MMU, and it's been merged into the main line of kernel development.