On May 11, 2004, at 4:45 PM, Kane, David (DPS) wrote:
I have seen documentation of three commercial Z8000
systems; the
Olivetti M20, the Zilog system 8000 (I think that was its name), and
the
Ithica DPS-8000 (I saw a Byte advert for it, not sure how well it
sold).
And there were as Dwight stated numerous commercial Z8000 S-100,
multibus, STD bus processor cards (once again advertised in Byte).
Lastly the Commodore C900, which only made it to evaluation machine
stage. I believe that a few 100 were ever made, I just missed one on
ebay a few months ago. I asked the purchaser a couple of times (through
ebay) for his impressions and any information on it, but I got no
reply.
I think I posted about this to the list already, but yes, Zilog had a
system. It was indeed called the Zilog System 8000 and ran a version
of System III Unix called ZEUS (Zilog Enhanced Unix System). I worked
with a doctor years ago to move some COBOL code (written using
RM/COBOL) from an MP/M system to a Zilog. I had to drive to the Zilog
rep office to do the work. I remember it being a cool system, but way
too much for me to consider at the time.
I'd love to find one, though... I love old Unix boxes.
Mark