18 Apr
2008
18 Apr
'08
5:33 p.m.
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Wow. So was it one 68000 per user, or did it actually
do proper
multitasking?
Each board multitasked, but each board was also independent of the
others, competing for bandwidth on the Qbus. Each board had two octarts
and could support (in terms of connectivity at least) 16 serial devices.
That would have been about 20 years ago. Man, time flies when you're
having fun.
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