Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!emory!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Z machine et al Message-ID: <1990Dec23.084244.17796@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 23 Dec 90 08:42:44 GMT References: <1029.2772FECD@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 12 David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes: >The second is a little more obtuse: sometime between the SuperPET era >and the Amiga (a wide time slice, to be sure) there were rumours of some >"Z machine" that would multitask and a bunch of other stuff. I know it wasn't this, but people ran (and still run) OS-9 on that early 6809 CBM machine (was that the SuperPET? or another name?). I'm not sure when the port was done tho, but it might actually have been the first CBM multitasking computer available :-). kevin (guest account)