MIT team working on $12 'Apple II' desktop

Awesome, but: The Apple ][ was based on the 6502 processor, which I'm not even sure is even produced today. They'd probably have better success with a Zilog Z-80 derivative or even a Motorola Dragonball which powered the Palm Pilots. At least the 68000-derived dragonball could run uClinux. You'd need a totally new OS to run on a 6502 or even a z80, unless they want to port a TCPIP and graphics stack to some abandonware OS which they have source code to.

Nope, I stand corrected, you can still get 6502's.

http://www.6502.org/commercial

No Linux port as far as I know, though.; Posted by: jperlow Posted on: 08/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Cool idea indeed tmccorm | 08/06/08

nice idea, but . . . pikeman666 | 08/06/08

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