If you have an Atari ST sleeping in the attic, and have an interest for
open source Unix, you might be interested to try out ST Mint, a
distribution of the FreeMiNT kernel tailored for this platform.
When preparing the last ST Mint release, I noticed that bash needed too much memory for the ST, so I included the sash shell, cross-compiled from the Debian source package.
Funnily enough, although the Atari hardware is physically large and heavy, working on ST Mint feels like doing embedded hardware development: you cross-compile, link with the smallest possible libc, copy stuff on a SD Card, and try to fit everything in 4MB of RAM.
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