mts@utcsrgv.UUCP (Martin Stanley) (10/05/83)
I would like to hear from anyone who has managed to get Unix
running on an S100 system at all resembling mine:
Compupro box, 8085/8088 CPU, 256K static ram,
System Support board, Interfacer 4,
Tandon 5 1/4"(5 Meg) winnie,
2 - 8" Qume floppies with Disk 1 controller.
I realize that I will probably need a new CPU (I suppose, a 68K), and
possibly more memory. Also, I have yet to purchase the disk controller
for the winnie. What I would like to do is to avoid having to scrap
any of the other boards - it appears that if I go the Dual route (if
this is even possible), I will have to purchase a new I/O board,
another clock, a special Eprom board, not to mention the CPU and disk
controller.
I hope there is another way. Any ideas?
Martin Stanley (416 961-4778)
{ ...decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!utai!mts }preece@uicsl.UUCP (10/07/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-242000:uicsl:7000024:000:197 uicsl!preece Oct 6 09:35:00 1983 Does Compupro have Unix available for their 16032 board? Is the 16032 board actually shipping? I'm pretty sure their ads that show the board mention Unix. scott preece pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!preece
mjs@rabbit.UUCP (10/07/83)
I have had several phone conversations with the folks at Godbout
Electronics, and they are still not shipping the 16032 board. As of
about 3 weeks ago, they had just submitted new artwork to their PC-card
manufacturers. My guess based on this info is that nobody will see
their 16032 board until early 1984 at the earliest. I truly vexes me
that they've been advertising the availability of that board for 8
months now. If you add the 3 months for lead time to advertise in
magazines like Byte, they've had ads for almost a year now. How come
these turkeys aren't subject to the same `overhanging the market' law
suits that IBM has had to wade through on occasion?
--
Marty Shannon
UUCP: {alice,rabbit,research}!mjs
Phone: 201-582-3199