I remember from my highschool days, the local
Computerland (remember those?) had a lovely
Onyx Z8000 machine that ran some flavor of unix.
I seem to recall it had most of the unix commands
available on the local university's PDP11/45 running
v7, and that the architecture somewhat resembled
a PDP11...
Anyone have this machine? It was strictly a business
box - serial ports, no bitmapped video, no video at all.
It must have been in the early 80's when Apple II's were
in vogue (and cost $CDN3000) and the Onyx was $CDN30K..
I could only find this blurb on a google search:
a.. 1980:Onyx introduces the Onyx C8002 microcomputer. It features a Zilog Z8000 microprocessor, 256KB RAM, tape backup, hard disk, serial ports for eight users, and running Unix, for US$20,000. It is the first microcomputer featuring an implementation of Unix.
cheers,
Heinz
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