22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
12:27 a.m.
IIRC... Zilog had Zeus (a SYSIII version) running. Exxon Office Systems swallowed and
regurgitated Zilog. They were a Vax customer in Princeton in the late '80s. I
installed one of the Vax 11/780s with the first RM80 I (and my office) ever saw as a brand
new Field Service grunt.
The US Internal Revenue Service was looking at replacing (Z8000 systems) them with
AT&T sold Pyramid boxes when I was there. Then they swallowed NCR and it all fell
apart. This was around '94 or so.
AT&T and Siemens were both Pyramid OEMs and were about 50% of Pyramid's business
(I was told). Anyone have further info? When Exxon pulled the plug on EOS I thing things
were up in the air...
Bill
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co>
To: Jon Forrest <nobozo(a)gmail.com>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 13:14
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Jon Forrest wrote:
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.
As I remember the Z8000 was going to be the great white hope that
would continue Zilog's success with the Z80 into modern times.
But, it obviously didn't happen.
Why?
Jon
Didn't Coherent run on the Z8K? Though that's not really Unix.
-uso.