On 12 Apr 2007 at 8:03, James Fogg wrote:
I remember this!
It was a multi user MS-DOS. It supported a number of 8 port serial cards
of the same generation (Starcomm or something like that). You'd attach
terminals to the serial board and run software that was written to run
under PC-MOS. Medical office software was what I mostly saw on these
systems.
Perusing the installation manual, mention is made of a multiport
intelligent serial card (MAXPEED SS 8/M) interfacing to Wyse 60
terminals. But then, other examples go on to use something called a
Maxtation SH 4/M adapter, which seems to be a card that interfaces 4
Hercules MGA adapters and 4 PC keyboards, used as terminals.
Then there's the VGNA, (Video Graphcs Network Adapter) that supports
two VGA monitors and keyboards. Up to 4 VGNAs per system is allowed.
I've never heard of either of these adapters.
Networking is mentioned, but is very sketchy.
The latest CPU mentioned is a 486; disk partition sizes of up to
628MB seem to be supported.
Cheers,
Chuck