What was the first Unix micro?

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Sun Oct 11 22:54:37 1998

On 11 Oct 98 at 23:20, Tony Duell wrote:

> > The plugged-in CPU card was a bit odd. It was 1986/1987 vintage and
> > appeared to have Z80000-series chips (yes, that has the right number of
> > zeros). I remember Zilog making a Z80000, but I don't know any details.
>
> I think I have the Z80000 data sheets somewhere...
>
> Ah yes, here we are, at least a Preliminary Product Specification
>

 A ha ha ha ha ha ha . Of course !

As they say in France,Tony you are truly "incroyable" (incredible)

I am never failed to be blown away by 3 people on this M-L.
Tony, Allison, and Jason Pero. We are indeed fortunate.

  Not to downplay the immense knowledge of all things TRS 80 and
master of the politically incorrect cryptic comment Ward Griffiths.
Or the immense knowledge of mini's of Tim Shippa As well as the
general guruhood of a goodly number of the members.

 The archives of this newsgroup could be the base of a Masters course on
computers. Thank you all.

ciao larry


> It appears to be a 32 bit CPU wit linear or segmented addressing and
> on-chip cache. One other thing is that the instruction set is an
> binary-compatibile extension of the Z8000 instruction set. So probably
> Zeus would run on it with few if any changes.
>
> > Was it Z8000-compatible? This particular machine is labeled as a Zilog
> > asset, so there's a chance it includes goodies that didn't make it into
> > the real world.
>
> I'd heard that the Z80,000 (Zilog always put the comma in) was either
> never sold or only sold in prototype quantities. Sounds like you have
> quite a find there...
>
> -tony
>
>
>
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