6 Sep
2007
6 Sep
'07
4:04 p.m.
On Thursday 06 September 2007 10:22, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Sep 6, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Steve Ciarcia did a Z8000 card as a project in BYTE, called Trump
Card.
That's probably the one I'm remembering, then. That was a better magazine
before he left...
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ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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M Dakin
Here's a neato question: You mentioned coprocessor
boards, and in fact some kinda sorta functioned that
way (in some sense - stuff got offloaded to the mpu on
the board I guess). But what were some early ancillary
processor boards for the pc/at/?. That is, where you
plugged a whole 'nother puter into your main puter,
and got to run separate apps off of that? Hmmmmm
I'm remembering a couple of those in Byte, which I stopped reading
sometime in the eighties. A 32032? (I never could keep the numbers of
that family straight). A Z8000 for sure. Maybe a 68K of some sort. It's
all very fuzzy...