jmh@coyote.uucp (John Hughes) (12/31/90)
I recently came across some interesting stuff in a tar on one of my archive diskettes: an upgrade to the xenix kernel for use with a 68010 cpu, and an upgrade to z80ctl to allow the console to use an IBM PC/Tandy 1000 style keyboard. The disclaimer in the README files says it's non-supported code. Does anyone know the origin of this stuff, and what its legal status is? (ie. can I distribute it via the file server?) Thanks. -John Hughes ps. Does anyone know what the diff. is between the revised z80ctl and the file z80ctlmux in the same package, by any chance? -- | John M. Hughes | "...unfolding in consciousness at the | | noao!jmh%moondog@coyote | deliberate speed of pondering." - Daniel Dennet | | jmh%coyote@noao.edu |--------------------------------------------------| | noao!coyote!jmh | P.O. Box 43305 Tucson, AZ 85733 |
yetsko@interlan.interlan.com (Mike Yetsko) (01/02/91)
Actually, it was the Tandy 2000 keyboard, not the 1000. They look the same, and can be converted easily, but the electrical interface is different. If you examine your diskettes carefully, you'll find all kinds of stuff, things like drivers for the quad 8250 board Tandy put in their multiplexor, but which worked GREAT in their model II systems with Xenix. I wouldn't be surprised if the xxxxxxxmux file was for the 4 port serial card. Better performance than the released 3 channel board, and an extra channel to boot! In R&D at Tandy, most of the guys had 'custom' machines, made from multiplexor in some cases, that were basically 16 slot backplanes. These guys were true scroungers and hackers, and when they say the T2000 keyboard, they just HAD to have it. Mike Yetsko