Xref: utzoo comp.misc:3496 comp.sys.misc:1694 comp.os.cpm:1750 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!orca!tekecs!frip!andrew From: andrew@frip.gwd.tek.com (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Z-80 Unix? Message-ID: <10390@tekecs.TEK.COM> Date: 20 Sep 88 16:29:33 GMT References: <278@pte.UUCP> <790@proxftl.UUCP> Sender: andrew@tekecs.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville, Oregon Lines: 22 [] "Years ago, the C Users Group talked about a Z-80 Unix-like operating system in one of their newsletters. (I don't know about now, but back then, you got a copy of all the back-issues when you joined; that's where I saw it) Unfortunately, I don't think it was ever released, as the author of the system was killed in a swimming or boating accident (I think)." This was the MARC system (I think that's the name ... elapsed time isn't good for brain cells). Scuttlebutt at the time had it that, upon the fellow's death, one of his acquaintances, a Los Angeles area consultant, swooped in on the grieving widow and talked her into selling him exclusive rights to the work in progress. He then spent years getting it in shape on a part-time basis, issuing periodic, tantalizing "it's almost done" notes to the net, until an un-backed-up hard disk crashed and all was lost. (The "swooping" part is single-source rumor. The rest is confirmed.) -=- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew%tekecs.tek.com@relay.cs.net) [ARPA]