Date   : Sat, 24 Sep 1988 07:20:48 GMT
From   : ucsdhub!ucrmath!jantypas@ucsd.edu (John Antypas)
Subject: Z-80 Unix?

>In article <278@pte.UUCP>, car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>> In his book "The Unix Operating System" Kaare Christian mentions that Unix
>> exists for Z-80. This was a big suprise to me. I didn't know that Unix ran
>> on any 8 bit CPU's.
>> 
>> Does anyone know anything about Unix running on a Z-80?
>
>Whitesmiths may have done IDRIS for the Z80.

Indeed they did, but I wouldn't exactly call it Unix.  Our labs use Idris
because we must, and the C alone is semi-Unix-like if you look at it
just the right way.  They rewrote litterally 90% of the libraries.  Truly
non-portable code!