From: Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 09:00:52 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e44f0597-bff4-2cdd-8ca5-be394eb2e434@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f469a378-c047-2acf-e971-2734d8eced7f@gmail.com>
Absolutely. When I was an impoverished grad student at Berkeley, Zilog
hired me as a consultant to port vi and the other Berkeley tools to
their Z8000 UNIX system. It was a treasured paying gig.
As I recall, it was a 16 bit system (with some addressing enhancements
ala the 11/70). By then, the VAX was popular and everybody wanted 32 bit
systems. People were pinning their micro-UNIX hopes on the Motorola 68K.
Even before Zilog's ZEUS, Onyx came out with a microwave oven-sized box
based on the Z8000. They loaned one to Berkeley, and it was my first
home computer when I took it home to port the tools. Everything had to
be copied over by serial port.
Mary Ann
On 1/21/20 9:52 AM, 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-22 17:01 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
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 [this message]
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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