From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:13:13 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.2001211312550.63702@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f469a378-c047-2acf-e971-2734d8eced7f@gmail.com>
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Jon Forrest wrote:
> 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
>
Didn't Coherent run on the Z8K? Though that's not really Unix.
-uso.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-21 18:13 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 [this message]
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
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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