From: Wesley Parish <wobblygong@gmail.com>
To: Cornelius Keck <tuhs@keck.us>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 13:28:26 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACNPpea-io1kTEW=UPSLg04=C_sNH0-7hciututMcU06zS0e1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.58.2003151337420.22343@mail.keck.us>
Is it still in existence? In the form of floppies? Any source?
Thanks
Wesley Parish
On 3/16/20, Cornelius Keck <tuhs@keck.us> wrote:
> That would be Cohere 0.7.3. Snappy system, loved it. Commodore Germany in
> Braunschweig got told to ditch the project after successfully presenting
> it at CeBit in Hannover. Many of these systems made it into hobbyists'
> hands. It's pretty much a version 7 lookalike, but internally different
> enough to encur AT&T's wrath. No network. Loved that thing. It's in
> storage in Germany. Gotta wonder if it still works. Other stuff I've
> brought back here did, so....
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> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Jason Stevens wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:35:59 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Jason Stevens <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com>
>> To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
>> Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
>> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
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>> The only one I know is Coherent. Disk images recently surfaced
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>> https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/distrib/Coherent-0.7/
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>> This is for the Commodore B 900 prototype.
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>> http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/900.html
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>> Get Outlook for Android
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>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:22 AM +0800, "Larry McVoy" <lm@mcvoy.com>
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>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 01:15:53PM -0500, Henry Bent wrote:
>> > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Jon Forrest wrote:
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>> > > 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.
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>> > A tiny bit of research would have answered this question for you:
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z8000#Z8000_CPU_based_systems
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>> 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).
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-16 0:29 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 [this message]
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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