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From: gonzalez@bbn.com (Jim Gonzalez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Need info for an S-100 bus system
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Date: 15 Oct 90 21:49:04 GMT
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In article <6565@vanuata.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> jack@cs.glasgow.ac.uk 
(Jack Campin) writes:
>
>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.

Tony Rich told me about these.  It requires their 68000 processor and at 
least one 256k memory board.  Cromemco was bought out by Dynatech, and has 
abandoned support of Cromix, so it is OK to distribute copies.  If you 
can locate the boards and are willing to spring the few bills for them, 
you can get "Unix".  I'm sticking with CDOS and ITC CP/M for now, since 
I'm cheap (that *is* why we use there things :-).

				-Jim.