Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site wlcrjs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!wlcrjs!randy From: randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Unix for CP/M 2.1 or > on a z80 Message-ID: <483@wlcrjs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 11:02:04 EST Article-I.D.: wlcrjs.483 Posted: Mon Jan 21 11:02:04 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 05:29:39 EST References: <7502@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess) Organization: chi-net, Public Access UN*X, Chicago IL Lines: 19 Summary: cd /;rm -rf A couple of years ago, I had a UN*X look-a-like running on a Z80 machine. It was basically a V6 re-do, and ran many things faster than my current networked Alti. The software was Micronix and it was from Morrow computing. It rand on their Decision I with 1/2 meg of memory and 15 meg hard disk. With a 6 mhz z80 it supported 4 users easily, and had CP/M as one of it's shells! It did all the normal UN*X stuff, i/o redirection, background tasks, print spoolers, 'bout half the normal UN*X utilities. But if you typed 'WS', it would see that wordstar was a cp/m program, bring up the CP/M shell, and run WordStar. It was written by a guy named rick something, and mite still be available from Morrows. Ran about $500. -- If *only* I had known... Randy Suess Chi-Net - Public Access UN*X (312) 545 7535 (h) (312) 283 0559 (system) {ihnp4|ihldt}!wlcrjs!randy