19 Sep
2006
19 Sep
'06
4:59 a.m.
Jos Dreesen / Marian Capel schrieb:
I found a scrapped box today at work :
2 8" floppydrives , RS232 and printer interfaces. Internally an F8
chipset ( F3850 / F3852 / F3854) with a WD1771 fdc.
Strangely enough a set of floppies lay on top, labeled Cp/M, Basic
CP/m Pascal etc.
Was there ever a CP/M version for the F8 ??
Jos Dreesen
The original F8 processor (not the later single
chip 3870) is a rather
obscure beast which has ROM modules that contain its own independent PC
and stack. Its focus was largely embedded applications and also video
consoles - the board you have found might be an intelligent I/O
subsystem that was connected to a real CP/M system if the presence of
CP/M floppies is not just pure coincidence.
The F8 itself is not at all compatible to the 8080 or Z80 so it won't
run CP/M, not even emulate it.
--
Holger