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That would be Cohere 0.7.3. Snappy system, loved it. Commodore Germany in
Braunschweig got told to ditch the project after successfully presenting
it at CeBit in Hannover. Many of these systems made it into hobbyists'
hands. It's pretty much a version 7 lookalike, but internally different
enough to encur AT&T's wrath. No network. Loved that thing. It's in
storage in Germany. Gotta wonder if it still works. Other stuff I've
brought back here did, so....
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Jason Stevens wrote:
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:35:59 +0000 (UTC)
From: Jason Stevens <jsteve(a)superglobalmegacorp.com>
To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent(a)gmail.com>, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
The only one I know is Coherent. Disk images recently surfaced
https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/distrib/Coherent-0.7/
This is for the Commodore B 900 prototype.
http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/900.html
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:22 AM +0800, "Larry McVoy" <lm(a)mcvoy.com>
wrote:
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 01:15:53PM -0500, Henry Bent wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Jon Forrest
wrote:
Yeah, it ran on the 16 bit one but I looked and couldn't find if they
got Unix on the z80000 (which I suspect is what Jon meant).
There's been a lot of discussion about early
Unix on Intel, National
Semi, Motorola, and Sparc processors. I don't recall if Unix ran on
the Z8000, and if not, why not.
A tiny bit of research would have answered this question for you:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z8000#Z8000_CPU_based_systems