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From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.misc,comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Z-80 Unix?
Summary: Micronix [?]
Keywords: z-80 unix
Message-ID: <842@vsi.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 88 02:09:12 GMT
References: <278@pte.UUCP>
Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA
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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 the 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?

My memory is a little fuzzy, but Morrow Designs [R.I.P.] had a
banked Z80 box running a *v6* UNIX that I think was called `Micronix'.
It must have been 1981-83, and they used v6 because they could
make it fit in the limited memory.  I've no clue on performance
or anything like that.

Morrow was a God in the Z80 world but he stayed in it too long when
the IBM PC came out :-(.
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