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From: Andreas Hein <andreas.hein@berlan.de>
To: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:55:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5daec877-97d1-b5a2-5db6-f639dd4f467c@berlan.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f469a378-c047-2acf-e971-2734d8eced7f@gmail.com>

As far as i know, there was a U8001 (Z8001 CPU Clone) in the System 
P8000 which run a System III based Unix System named "Wega"
It was designed and produced by Company EAW from East-Berlin GDR (German 
Democratic Republic)

Details with Docs, Schematics and Sourcecode at: http://www.pofo.de/P8000/

KR,

Andreas

Am 21.01.20 um 18:52 schrieb Jon Forrest:
> 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.
>
> As I remember the Z8000 was going to be the great white hope that
> would continue Zilog's success with the Z80 into modern times.
> But, it obviously didn't happen.
>
> Why?
>
> Jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-01-22 20:02 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
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 [this message]
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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