10 Oct
1998
10 Oct
'98
4:46 p.m.
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