Ancient 8086/80286 unixes?

[Dave McGuire]

On Sep 6, 2007, at 1:31 AM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
>>  Here's a neato question: You mentioned coprocessor
>> boards, and in fact some kinda sorta functioned that
>> way (in some sense - stuff got offloaded to the mpu on
>> the board I guess). But what were some early ancillary
>> processor boards for the pc/at/?. That is, where you
>> plugged a whole 'nother puter into your main puter,
>> and got to run separate apps off of that? Hmmmmm
>
> I'm remembering a couple of those in Byte,  which I stopped reading  
> sometime
> in the eighties.  A 32032?  (I never could keep the numbers of that  
> family
> straight).  A Z8000 for sure.  Maybe a 68K of some sort. It's all very
> fuzzy...

   Steve Ciarcia did a Z8000 card as a project in BYTE, called Trump  
Card.

            -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007