23 Jun
1998
23 Jun
'98
11:56 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
As I recall, "Daybreak" was an unoffical name for the later model of the
Star (8035?) because of the software package it ran, or something like
that. Damn, I wasn't paying the best attention. I was blabbing to Paul
Coad who was sitting next to me and probably preventing him from hearing
any useful information either (sorry, Paul :)
So am I,
actually. The only 2 Xerox machines I have are a Model 3000 word
processor (seems to be an 8085-based machine) and a Daybreak. I know very
little about the latter (one day I'll figure it out), but it was cheap
enought to be worth grabbing.
I went to the "last" Star demo, and somebody (Sam?) asked whether Daybreak
was the code name for a Star prototype, but I didn't hear the answer.
Describe the Daybreak, and somebody who attended the demo can probably
tell you if it's a Star. IIRC, the Star had both a custom microcoded CPU and
had an 8080 (or 8085)
to handle I/O.
I believe 8080 is correct (remember, the design was started in the 1975
timeframe, but did extend into 1981 when it was released). The 8085 is
circa 1976. Why didn't I take better notes!? ;)
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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