[TUHS] SUN (Stanford University Network) was PC Unix

David Arnold davida at pobox.com
Sat Apr 10 22:06:34 AEST 2021


> On 10 Apr 2021, at 13:17, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2021, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
> 
>> Z80 CP/M machines were still competitive in 1981-1983 (Osborne, Kaypro)
> 
> And the Aussie Microbee...  Wonderful machine, and easily hacked upon.
> 
> For example, you could expand the memory by soldering several chips on top of each other and addressing the CS* line via bank-switching.

6116 static RAM meant no mucking about with DRAM refresh either. 

And the single switch upgrade from 2MHz to 4MHz.

Happy days. 

But I never tried to get a Unix on it. UZI or Fuzix might work?



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