jhull@spp2.UUCP (Jeff Hull) (03/09/85)
Last month (I think) in BYTE there was a letter that claimed that
someone is now producing an S-100 bus CPU board that will plug into
any Compupro system & will let you run both CPM-86 & MS-DOS. The
letter implied (or seemed to) that with this board, I could run IBM PC
programs. Does anyone out there know any more about this?
I am very sceptical because the IBM PC & programs written for it
involve a lot more than just the CPU. Specifically, the keyboard &
screen interfaces are very well defined. I am very interested because
I have over $2K worth of PC SW I acquired during a consulting contract
that I can't presently use because I have a CP/M system. I don't want
to throw away all of my CP/M stuff & I don't want 2 completely
incompatible systems. Does anybody have any ideas (other than the
board mentioned above)?
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Blessed Be,
Jeff Hull {decvax,hplabs,ihnp4,scdrdcf,ucbvax}
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Hawthorne, CA 90250Samuel@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Sam Hahn) (03/12/85)
Perhaps you caught a reference to Compupro's video board. That provides software with PC-compatible graphics (so I'm told), and therefore enables your Compupro dual-processor or 86/286 board to run MSDOS with a reasonable chance of compatibility with the PC. The board I'm referring to also has a keyboard plug, so that you can run with a PC-compatible keyboard, and bypass the system console i/o. The central processor is not on this board, however, so if you're running a 8-bit CP/M system, you'd still need the 8088 from someplace. I'm expecting to see a demonstration of this video board at the next Piconet Compupro SIG meeting in 2 weeks; -- if anyone's interested, I'll let you know what my impressions are after I see it (smell it, etc). -- sam hahn -------
notes@isucs1.UUCP (03/18/85)
Yes, this board does exist. Just last week, I received a letter from Custom
Computer Technology about this board, the S100-PC. It is a board which plugs
into the Compupro mainframe and is cabled to an external box containing an
IBM PC motherboard. The interface supports I/O mapped devices only.
For more information, write Custom Computer Technology at:
Custom Computer Technology
1 CCT Plaza Box 4160
West Sedona, AZ 86340
--Jeff Henkels (Drew's roommate)