RetroBSD on Maximite

I already wrote how I collected Maximite .

Yesterday there was a mood, and I decided to put RetroBSD there.

RetroBSD is a true UNIX, which is a successor to 2.11BSD and designed for embedded systems with a fixed memory structure. Currently working on a Microchip PIC32 microcontroller with 128 kilobytes of memory and 512 kilobytes of Flash. This processor allows you to separate the address space of the kernel and user processes.
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RetroBSD provides kernel memory protection using the microprocessor's hardware capabilities, full preemptive multitasking, POSIX API (fork, exec, wait4, etc.). You can write programs directly on the device, since there is a compiler C. The system kernel is stitched into a crystal, and the file system is loaded from the SD card.

RetroBSD supports not only Maximite hardware, but also a number of alternative devices based on PIC32 (chipKIT Max32, Sparkfun UBW32, Microchip Explorer 16, Microchip PIC32 USB / Ethernet Starter Kit, Olimex Duinomite, Duinomite-Mini and Duinomite-Mega, eflightworks).

After a bit of trouble with the bootloader and installing the necessary libraries , it turned out that everything was assembled and uploaded to the device.

The solemn moment of inclusion, and ...



This is UNIX!

First, of course, the game. Python, he's Worm.



Solitaire:



I'm a little more serious now - Forth.



At the moment RetroBSD only works through the serial port and does not support VGA and PS / 2, but Sergey Vakulenko, the author of RetroBSD, has plans to write these drivers.