15 Oct
2005
15 Oct
'05
1:09 a.m.
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:06:17 +0100, John Honniball wrote:
Definicion did both a 68020 and a NS32032 addon card,
they both did not have a "real" operating system. In addition
to the runtime environment on PC side, they had some native
libraries available, which supported the basic I/O stuff, for the
rest, you were on your own ...
Opus Systems made some PC add on cards as well (with NS32032/NS32332
and at least one variant with a SUN Sparc processor !), they included a
complete Unix operating system ...
... there were quite some manufacturers "in the good times", that developed
such solutions.
I already own some of those boards, but i'm still interested in such PC add-on board
stuff, so if you have one you want to part with, please let me know :)
Ciao Bernd
woodelf wrote:
... but there was no real operating system available.
BTW: i'm still searching for a trump card (tried to get one
for quite some years), maybe some can halp me on this ?
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.