High performance coprocessor boards of the 80s and 90s - was Re: SGI ONYX

Raymond Wiker rwiker at gmail.com
Fri Apr 22 01:59:58 CDT 2016


Steve Ciarcia (BYTE) had a Z8000-based PC coprocessor ("Trump Card"?) which
main purpose was (I think) to run BASIC programs faster.

Another of those things that I wanted in the early 80s, along with a PC to
use it with.

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:18 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> Would the Palantir 68K ISA OCR boards be considered as high-performance?
>  There was also, IIRC, a NSC 32016 board made by someone.
>
> --Chuck
>
>


More information about the cctalk mailing list