- Smaky
The Smaky is a line of mostly 8-bit
personal computer s and accompanying operating system developed by ProfessorJean-Daniel Nicoud and others at theÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne inSwitzerland beginning in1974 . The computers were used at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and in Swiss schools. The names derives from SMArt KeYboard, reflecting the form factor that contained a compactmotherboard which fit within the same housing as the keyboard.The first three models, Smaky 1, Smaky 2, and Smaky 4, were based on the
Intel 8080 microprocessor (Smaky 3 was a prototype that was never completed). In 1978 the Smaky switched to using the 8-bitZilog Z80 processor. A portable Smaky was made during this period, which resembled Osborne portable computers.In 1981 the platform again changed to the 32-bitMotorola 68000 processor. A new operating system was written, called Psos, which was developed specifically for the Smaky, and used on all subsequent models.Development work on the Smaky hardware ended in
1995 . A Smaky emulator forMicrosoft Windows was developed in 2000.External links
* [http://www.smaky.ch/en/lami/part4.php Smaky history from "A History of Computing in Switzerland"]
* [http://home.gna.org/fosfat/ Fosfat] (FOS library and FUSE extension for GNU/Linux)
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