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ChristopherDrum 65 days ago | parent | on: Resurrecting Infocom's UNIX Z-Machine with Cosmopo...
I actually don't think any UNIX variant ever shipped as a commerical product. My gut feeling while working on the project was that it was perhaps a reference implementation, documenting proper z-machine behavior the various assembly versions needed to match. But that's a literal guess, TBH.
The list of known system codes (used as identification for packaging and so forth) can be seen here: http://pdd.if-legends.org/infocom/fact-sheet.txt
- KODust 64 days ago
  Yup. With the state of compilers and microcomputers at the time, the only viable mass-market targets for the Unix version of the sources would have been the Mac and the Amiga. But those already had native interpreters by the time they had C compilers capable of building this source.