[TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?

[Wesley Parish]

Is it still in existence? In the form of floppies? Any source?

Thanks

Wesley Parish

On 3/16/20, Cornelius Keck <tuhs at keck.us> wrote:
> 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....
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> On Tue, 21 Jan 2020, Jason Stevens wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:35:59 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: Jason Stevens <jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com>
>> To: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com>, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com>
>> Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs at tuhs.org>
>> Subject: Re: [TUHS] Unix on Zilog Z8000?
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>> The only one I know is Coherent.  Disk images recently surfaced
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>> https://www.autometer.de/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/distrib/Coherent-0.7/
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>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2020 at 01:15:53PM -0500, Henry Bent wrote:
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>> > > 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.
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>> > A tiny bit of research would have answered this question for you:
>> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_Z8000#Z8000_CPU_based_systems
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>> 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).
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