Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3542 comp.sys.misc:1710 comp.os.cpm:1760 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!ukma!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!ucrmath!jantypas From: jantypas@ucrmath.UUCP (John Antypas) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Z-80 Unix? Keywords: z-80 unix Message-ID: <427@ucrmath.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 88 07:20:48 GMT References: <278@pte.UUCP> <1466@ssc.UUCP> Reply-To: jantypas@ucrmath.UUCP (John Antypas) Organization: University of California, Riverside Lines: 13 >In article <278@pte.UUCP>, car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes: >> In his book "The Unix Operating System" Kaare Christian mentions that Unix >> exists for Z-80. This was a big suprise to me. I didn't know that Unix ran >> on any 8 bit CPU's. >> >> Does anyone know anything about Unix running on a Z-80? > >Whitesmiths may have done IDRIS for the Z80. Indeed they did, but I wouldn't exactly call it Unix. Our labs use Idris because we must, and the C alone is semi-Unix-like if you look at it just the right way. They rewrote litterally 90% of the libraries. Truly non-portable code!