From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: Nigel Williams <nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 17:00:50 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 16:49, Nigel Williams <nw@retrocomputingtasmania.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 5:22 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I spent some time attempting to confirm whether the Z80000 (the 32-bit
> flat address space development of the Z8000) ever went to silicon and
> was not able to confirm it did. My suspicion remains that the Z80000
> was only ever a paper specification and did not even get to a first
> spin. If anyone knows and has some evidence I would be glad to update
> the wikipedia page.
>
This thread reminded me that I own a copy of the Zilog "1983/84 Components
Data Book," which I am talking to Al Kossow about scanning. It fully
details the Z80,000 on paper but does not say anything about hardware,
everything is labeled preliminary. It is dated September 1983.
-Henry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-21 22:01 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 [this message]
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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