22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
12:20 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 01:15:53PM -0500, Henry Bent wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Jon Forrest
<nobozo(a)gmail.com> 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