22 May
2007
22 May
'07
9:15 p.m.
take no offense at my previous comment. It's
just
that I'd have needed better graphics (and clockspeed,
and...) to brave the wilds of dos incompatibility in
order to commit to such a system back when they were
current. All of the other pseudo compatibles have much
more to offer, and the Rainbow seemed to drift into
Waht does a Sirius (Vixtor 9000) or an HP150 have to offer that a 'bow
doesn't?
The 'bow graphics card had a limited vertical resolution (200 pixels?)
but apart from that it was pretty good. It had a 7220 graphics chip on
it, it had a colour lookup table. Darn it, it had colour (the HP150 and
the Sirius seem to be monochrome only).
The 'bow also has the Z80 processor and can run CP/M 80 programs IIRC.
-tony