Nsc800 cpu, which is a z80, can be installed in a Model 100 and Tandy 102. Likely all model T with some effort. Steve
On Sunday, November 1, 2026, Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 1, 2026, at 6:32 AM, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > You need some reasonable amount of fast storage and some banked memory. > A TRS80 model 4 with the full RAM option and the tandy hard drive would > have been the historical kind of machine you'd have needed at the beginning > of the 1980s to run a Unix clone so not really a good match for the T. It > does run on the Amstrad NC100/200 machines which are a similar kind of Z80 > based platform but with 1MB of PCMCIA storage which is what makes it sort > of viable (it's still not terribly useful) > > This description sounds like the REXCPM is perfectly suited to making it > go; apart from the lack of display parity, it's easily a peer to its > contemporary Z80 desktop systems from the specs standpoint. Storage at > memory speeds, full address space, it's all in there. Without expansion, I > can't imagine it'd fit. The C64's "breadbin" unix-like project has far > fewer features and barely fits on the machine at all. > > I look forward to seeing how Fuzix continues to progress. It's just hard > to picture the 100-series as being suited for it at all without hardware > being added.
