Alternate CPU builds of filePro over the years

[Barry Wiseman]

On 5/7/2013 3:11 PM, Barry Wiseman wrote:
> 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.
Sorry, that's models II-IV.  There was a Model I Profile product that was non-small.