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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 10:20:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200121182045.GO26619@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBeiEHuooowP2RvT1FjPZ18ykErFhVY-0F2VDLuiXYzi3A@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 01:15:53PM -0500, Henry Bent wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > There's been a lot of discussion about early Unix on Intel, National
> > Semi, Motorola, and Sparc processors. I don't recall if Unix ran on
> > the Z8000, and if not, why not.
> >
> 
> A tiny bit of research would have answered this question for you:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z8000#Z8000_CPU_based_systems

Yeah, it ran on the 16 bit one but I looked and couldn't find if they
got Unix on the z80000 (which I suspect is what Jon meant).

  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-21 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-21 17:52 Jon Forrest
2020-01-21 18:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-01-21 18:27   ` William Pechter
2020-01-21 18:15 ` Henry Bent
2020-01-21 18:20   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-01-21 21:48     ` Nigel Williams
2020-01-21 22:00       ` Henry Bent
2020-01-21 22:36         ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-21 22:35     ` Jason Stevens
2020-03-15 18:40       ` Cornelius Keck
2020-03-16  0:28         ` Wesley Parish
2020-03-16 22:02           ` Derek Fawcus
2020-01-21 18:32   ` William Pechter
2020-01-21 21:24   ` Jon Forrest
2020-01-21 18:28 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-21 21:07   ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-01-21 21:32   ` [TUHS] Onyx (was Re: Unix on Zilog Z8000?) Derek Fawcus
2020-01-22  8:18   ` [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000? Arrigo Triulzi
2020-01-22 17:00 ` Mary Ann Horton
2020-01-22 21:04   ` [TUHS] Life at UC Berkeley (was Unix on Zilog Z8000?) Jon Forrest
2020-01-23  2:08   ` [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000? Erik Fair
2020-01-22 19:55 ` Andreas Hein
2020-01-23 12:01   ` Oliver Lehmann
2020-01-25  1:46     ` [TUHS] Dhrystone Benchmark (was: Unix on Zilog Z8000?) Oliver Lehmann
2020-01-25  1:49       ` Oliver Lehmann
2020-01-25  2:29         ` Warner Losh
2020-01-22 10:56 [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000? Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-22 13:14 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-22 15:14 ` Clem Cole

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