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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
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>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!