Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Old Hardware Redux Date: 25 Aug 2025 18:10:15 GMT Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <1084bk6$2ia1m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <1084bpn$7mtq$26@dont-email.me> <68a64428@news.ausics.net> <1086q67$2rq5s$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1086st0$rgpt$20@dont-email.me> <8sycnU_KqJQ46TX1nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@giganews.com> <108adsd$1n7i9$5@dont-email.me> <68a93f10@news.ausics.net> <108c2pv$234t5$2@dont-email.me> <108hh5l$3bl64$16@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 9H1lEf43p+9HK3Jvsui+ng4w+ag6gx3AViO5TozH/B2JZV7QqI Cancel-Lock: sha1:r6fSuPmHo3LJN+hy8+We0u3Ouo0= sha256:h2egu1F4VHpNjJKSTveFQ8mbfT2B10w+PSUN+/sGRBg= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72256 On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:24:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > I looked at that chip too. But I had a living to make and IBM PC clones > were the order of the day so that's the target hardware I wrote for, > mostly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onyx_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti_M20 There may have been some others that used the Z8000 but it didn't last long. The Z80000 never happened. I had used the Z80 both with CP/M computers and in embedded systems but never the Z8000. I did have a 68000 development board but I've never used that in a project either.