14 Jul
2010
14 Jul
'10
5:39 p.m.
Were there any ISA boards released with the Motorola
88000-series CPU
on them?
But of course! Opus Systems, like Definicon, put a couple of different
CPUs on full-length ISA cards that would be added to or bundled with PCs
to create a lower cost workstation in the latter half of the 80s. Opus
delivered products using the Nat Semi 32000 family, later developed the
Personal Mainframe Series 8000 using an 88k chipset, and eventually did
it again with SPARC. We had one of these 88k boards in a Compaq DeskPro
on a researcher's desk in 1991 and he was quite pleased with it.
If one of these 32k or 88k systems/boards should need a new home, feel
free to give me a shout. ;^)
/Los links!!/ - All of the following shortened links go to Google Books.
Initial announcement in InfoWorld, February 1989:
http://tinyurl.com/opus8000
A few more details, October 1989: http://tinyurl.com/opus8000-2
Opus' 32332-based Series 200 announcement: http://tinyurl.com/opus200
--S.