Alternate CPU builds of filePro over the years

[Barry Wiseman]

On 5/7/2013 1:47 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
>> On 5/6/2013 3:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> [...]
>>> To the best of my knowledge and belief, the only non-x86 CPUs for
>>> which
>>> any Unix version of Filepro was ever compiled were the AT&T
>>> 3b2/7300's,
>>> and the 16032 in the NCR Tower, and I'm relatively certain none of
>>> those
>>> are still available. Maybe also the IBM RT.
>> [...]
>>
>> Well, there was, of course, the original -- the Tandy 16/6000 with the
>> 68000 processor.
> D'oh.  In fact, the original was probably the Z80, but that was pre-small,
> I guess.  Was there any code carryover at all?
>
>
None whatever, only design concepts.  Although the Tandy Model I-IV versions were small products, they were all coded in Z80 assembler. The *nix versions were coded from the ground up in C.