22 Apr
1998
22 Apr
'98
3:14 a.m.
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, 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?
<...>
Of all the busses Jack named, he forgot the Intel Multi-bus standard.
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Quite a few. from memory....the S-100, probably the earliest micro bus
to become popular. A standard business configuration for 8-bit would be
a Z-80, 64K RAM, 5.25" floppies, serial ports to a CRT terminal and
printer, and CP/M-80, running applications written in CBASIC. For
16-bit systems it would be an 80286, 1MB RAM, hard drive in the 40MB
range, 4 to 16 serial ports to CRT terminals and printers, maybe even a
modem, running MP/M or Concurrent DOS, again with applications written
in BASIC. A lot of single board Z80, 8086, and 80286 systems (like
Altos) built this same basic configuration, but without an expansion
bus.