22 Apr
1998
22 Apr
'98
1:58 p.m.
On 21 Apr 98 at 15:30, Jack Peacock wrote:
From: Max Eskin [mailto:maxeskin@hotmail.com]
<< I'm curious about the various home/small business computer standards.
I know about the PC standard *sigh*. There was also the MSX standard
which involved a Z80 and 64K ram, I think. What other ones were there?
How would you identify these busses ? More particularly I'm wondering
whether the Wang PC I picked up was an Exor or ss50. It's not the standard
configuration. Uses upright 1/2 cards , has some Zilogs , Motorolas, and an
8086. I've heard Wang was one of the most innovative companies. Could
they have cobbled together many of the existant technologies on this machine ?
It obviously is not a clone.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
>
The SS-50, a competitor for the S-100 but using Motorola 6800 CPU, never
really caught on. VME, an industrial bus still alive today, lots of
different CPUs supported over the years, but it started with an Intel
8080. Motorola came up with a competing bus that looked very similar to
S-100 except it used 86 pin bus, called Exor, something like that, never
caught on either, though Motorola did their best to promote it for a
while.
Jack Peacock