What was the first Unix micro?

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Sat Oct 10 23:46:50 1998

On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:

> Oh, the keywords being "mass-produced" as in the way Eli Whitney
> invented for rifles and Henry Ford improved for automobiles, and
> "mass-marketed" as in advertised to the public at large, the answer
> IMAO (life is too short to have humble opinions) is the TRS-80
> Model 16 with Xenix.

I guess mass-marketing in the 80's meant TV ads, so did Tandy advertise
this thing on TV? BTW, it was mentioned previously that the first micro
port of Unix (non-DEC) was to a Z8000 box. Here's a 1981 brochure for
Zilog's System 8000 running ZEUS:
        http://www.ifeb.se/obs/zilog.html

-- Doug
Received on Sat Oct 10 1998 - 23:46:50 BST

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