From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Zilog Z80 Unix
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:33:11 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1704201831160.54902@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170420215955.GJ3285@mcvoy.com>
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 07:32:50AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Apr 2017, Erik E. Fair wrote:
>>
>>> I have a memory of having seen a Zilog Z-80 (not Z8002 like the Onyx)
>>> based Unix, possibly v6, at a vendor show or conference - perhaps the
>>> West Coast Computer Faire (WCCF) in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
>>
>> I'd kill to have Unix running on a Z-80; it combines two of my passions...
>
> I get the sentiment, I too have a fond spot for the Z-80, it's perhaps the
> chip where I've done the most assembly (did assembler versions of ls, cp,
> rm, etc for CP/M).
>
> That said, would I _want_ a stripped down Unix on a floppy disk based Z-80
> machine? Hmm, well once I thought I wanted that old porsche coupe like
> the one Richard Pryor & Gene Wilder drove in one of their movies. I found
> one, $13,000 in the late 1990's and drove it. Curied me of ever wanting
> a car that old. Uncomfortable seats, everything rattled, the windows didn't
> want to roll up, etc, etc.
>
> I suspect that living on a Z-80 with floppies after the stuff we are used
> to would not be pleasant. At least not for me. Fun but frustrating, where
> is the network? Where's my SSD? 64K? Really? Retro is cool but not that
> retro :)
>
I'm a 6502 person myself. Though I'm not sure I'd want to run a *x on my
actual 6502 machine (a "Platinum" Apple //e), I wonder if something a bit
unixier than GNO (Gno's Not Orca, runs on top of GS/OS) could be pulled
off on my pet 6502-class machine, the 65816-based Apple IIgs, with 512K
base in the common version and 1 MB base in the final...
-uso.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-20 1:42 Erik E. Fair
2017-04-20 2:54 ` Jason Stevens
2017-04-20 3:09 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-20 3:40 ` Gregg Levine
2017-04-20 4:34 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-20 4:50 ` Warner Losh
2017-04-20 7:03 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 7:32 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 4:32 ` Rik Schneider
2017-04-20 13:05 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-22 21:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-22 23:59 ` Clem cole
2017-04-23 0:01 ` Clem cole
2017-04-23 0:13 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-24 0:04 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2017-04-24 0:40 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-23 5:14 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-23 5:14 ` Wesley Parish
2017-04-20 21:32 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-20 21:59 ` Larry McVoy
2017-04-20 22:33 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2017-04-20 23:28 ` Pete Turnbull
2017-04-20 23:19 ` Harald Arnesen
2017-04-21 0:03 ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-23 17:58 ` Michael Welle
2017-04-20 12:34 Noel Chiappa
2017-04-20 13:41 ` Mutiny
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