Aucbvax.1799 fa.info-cpm utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!Gray@UCLA-SECURITY Wed Jun 17 10:12:17 1981 Re: UNIX on a micro There are actually several 'Unix-like' systems for micros... Some with good, some with bad reputations. I haven't used any of them myself, but consensus seems to be that OMNIX and OS1 are losers, and Cromix and MARC are winners. All of these are Z80 or 8080/Z80 based. For 68xx fans, there is Uniflex. Cromix is offered by Cromemco, and I assume therefore that it is intended only to run on Cromemco machines. Their earlier operating system, CDOS, was more-or-less compatible with CPM 1.4, but I don't know if there is any hope of running CPM2.2 stuff. For more info: Cromemco, 280 Bernardo Ave, Mountain View, CA 94040. 415 964-7400 MARC has some very interesting possibilities... it boots up under any CPM system, it does have a CPM emulator (probably 1.4), and has hard disk support. It runs on 8080/Z80s. For more info, contact: Vortex Technology, POB 2284, Culver City, CA 90230 213 645-7200 Uniflex, for 68xx machines (I'm not sure which are supported), is a product of Technical Systems Consultants. I don't have their address handy. --Terry Gray ------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.