15 Feb
2004
15 Feb
'04
7:57 a.m.
"Joe R." <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com> at Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:18:01 -0500
bragged:
[hack...]
NuBus prototypiong board made by Apple. This one
has two ROMs and a
68000 installed at the factory. Anybody know what the story is on that?
You found yourself a Macintosh coprocessor board. They developed a
RT/OS called A/ROSE (and the extension A/ROSE that no one knew what to
do with...) to go with it.
<http://www.mactech.com/articles/develop/issue_04/coprocessor.html> has
a good write-up on the beast.
[...]
Drum roll please. Taa Da!
National Semiconductor Pacer SBC
Another monument to Nationals propensity to shoot themselves in the
foot. I was running a DG Nova 1200 at the time this POS came out and
was one of the first to stand in line to get the micro version of the
1200, And then only tot find that they split the Program Register into
two 8-bit registers thereby making it a paged machine and rendering the
thing useless. And then there's the static registers in the 32000
series... National had the chance to do right in many cases, but always
got it wrong. AHHHHHHH!!!!! Enough of my rant.
Claude