28 Apr
1997
28 Apr
'97
5:29 p.m.
Whilst in a self-induced trance, hellige happened to blather:
On 28-Apr-97, classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu wrote:
emulate a
I seem to recall that Definicon made coprocessor
boards (68000 series, and
maybe 32016 series as well) for PC's. You rean special language compilers
on the PC that converted your high-level source into machine code for the
68000 or whatever, and ran it on the coprocessor board
What would be the point in doing this though, if the board didn't specific 68000 series computer?
Jeff,
It's way past my bedtime, but I just had to comment on this post...
Believe it or not, the board doesn't have to emulate a specific 68K
computer... it *is* a specific 68K computer!
The board quite possibly was a system that would just use the PeeCee's
hard/floppy/parallel/serial (etc.) ports and would run OS-9/68K or another
viable 68K operating system of the day (Xenix?). This in itself is not
new... shortly after the IBM-PC came out there was a 68000 board for it
that ran OS-9. Remember, the 68K was first, and by then already had several
super-powerful (compared to MS-Dog) OS's available for the platform. I have
a review of one in an old copy of Byte laying around somewhere around here.
BTW, put away the asbestos... it's not a flame! I'm just tired (& cranky)
and don't have a bad case of run-on fingers like usual!
See ya,
"Merch"
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