From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cpg@aladdin.de (Christian Groessler) Date: 11 Aug 2002 02:37:42 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] Re: pcc ports Message-ID: <877kiyqlgp.fsf@gibbon.cnet.aladdin.de> On 08/10/2002 04:54:16 PM MST Al Kossow wrote: > >> I see there no version for the Z8000 but for the 16032. Was there >> really a Z8000 version? > >http://www.lcs.mit.edu/about/architects.html > >"Fortunately for Ward, by 1980 the community of computer researchers >had grown from a few labs to a few dozen---and for the most part, the >research community was moving in one particular direction: UNIX, the >castrated Multics operating system that had been spawned from Bell >Labs. UNIX was loved because it was small and portable, which meant >that it would be easy for Ward to get the operating system running on >the NuMachine. The group got the UNIX source code from Bell Labs and >ported the operating system to three different microprocessors: the >Zilog Z8000, the Intel 8086, and the Motorola 68000. Although it >would not be clear for several years, by building a single-user >computer with a bitmapped display, a network interface, and a >powerful microprocessor, Ward's group had just created one of the >world's first UNIX workstations. >" Hmm, but where is it? :-) regards, chris