Xref: utzoo comp.os.cpm:1770 comp.misc:3565 comp.sys.misc:1718 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Carra_its-me_Bussa From: Carra_its-me_Bussa@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,comp.misc,comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: z-80 unix and unix-"like" shells Message-ID: <9464@cup.portal.com> Date: 26 Sep 88 06:17:35 GMT References: <7160@well.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 30 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.3345 bandy@well.UUCP (Andrew Scott Beals) writes... [stuff] > Another effort in the unix look-alike class is the Cromix operating > system from Cromemco. Yes, they're still in business and they still > maintain a uucp site. They make postings every once in a while. > I'm not sure that Cromix runs on a z80, but I have heard that it > does. Cromix also runs on Cromemco's 68000 machines and a port was FYI, Cromix v11 _DOES_ run on a Z80. I worked for the local Cromemco store here and we had it back then. As a matter of fact, I was at the VPs house last night and he was busy connecting it via modem to his PC clone. Whipping up his own quick and dirty XMODEM transmitter in C to Procomm 2.4.2. Cromix/Z80 uses bank swapping--the first 64K is for the OS, other 64K banks are used for CP/M & CDOS tasks. REAL Cromix tasks can share a single 64K bank if they are relocatable-binary. The C compiler he has for it is pitiful.. Slow as xmas, but it works!! Three pass from C to ASM, then to OBJ (?) then a link to .BIN (whew! usoft/borland runs a little faster now-a-days! :-) ) Cromix v20 and up used a Z80 AND a 68000 processor; it could figure out what you were trying to run and select the correct processor. If anybody has any Cromemco stuff they'd like to sell (or buy!) drop me a line and I'll have Steve get in touch w/you. carra bussa @ cup.portal.com PS - somebody ported Cromix to an AMIGA??? Hell, that'd almost be worth having!