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From: jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Re: Need info for an S-100 bus system
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Date: 15 Oct 90 12:35:59 GMT
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demarem@clutx.clarkson.edu wrote:
> I suspect that your choices for an OS are CP/M or CP/M :-).  [...]
>  Do not even dream of trying to run MINIX on an 8080 or Z80 system, it is
> pretty near impossible.

Cromemco had an OS called Cromix that was meant to be vaguely Unix-like.
I've seen it running and it seemed to work.  Needed extra memory and CPU
boards above the bare S-100 minimum, I think.

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