14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
4:06 p.m.
woodelf wrote:
Circuit Cellar had a Z8000 and on card for the PC
once.
It was called the Trump Card, and was described by
Steve Ciarcia in the May and June 1984 issues of
Byte.
Does anybody remember just what it ran?
It had a clone of the MS-DOS BASICA, called TBASIC.
It claimed to run BASICA programs on the Z8000, much
faster than they ran on the 8088. There was also a
C compiler, a Z80 emulator that ran CP/M, a RAM disk
for MS-DOS, a debugger and a language compiler
called Y. The article ends with a claim that UNIX
will be available for the board.
Other than 386's was there any other add on cards
for
the PC?
There was the Definicon board for the PC with a National
Semiconductor 32000 chip on it. Also decribed in Byte,
a few years after the Trump Card.
--
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk