[geeks] Microsoft Surface...

[Michael Parson]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:58:27PM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> From: "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm at mendelson.com>
>> Date: 2007/06/06 Wed AM 11:54:43 CDT
>> To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>> Subject: Re: [geeks] Microsoft Surface...
>
>> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 11:42:39AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> TRS-80 Model I and Model II each had COBOL and FORTRAN compilers too.
>>
>> Wait a minute, TRS-80 model I and II (and I think there was a IV)
>> were 8080 type computers (I think they actually had Z80's).
>
> Yep, Z-80 CPUs in the Model I, II, III, and IV. [0]
>
>> The Model II ran Xenix. It was an entirely different animal.
>
> Xenix ran on the Z-80 CPU, and was sold by... Microsoft!

Yeah, the Z-80 (and 8080) is/was an 8 bit CPU, the only UNIX-like OS
I knew of for that processor was UZI, which was supposedly a decent
implementation (given the resources):

http://www.dougbraun.com/uzi.html

I never got a chance to run it though.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org