27 Nov
2006
27 Nov
'06
7:54 p.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Out of interest, were there many manufacturers who
sold a system with
three different CPUs as standard? There were a few around with two, I
know...
But what with different CPU's could you run? Looking back in hind sight
the only OS out there was CP/M for the 8080. All the rest just seemed
to have BASIC in ROM and some way of saveing programs.
(Torch came close, I suppose, but as they didn't
make the BBC side of
their systems themselves I'm not sure that they count!)
I know somebody had planned a 6100 for use as CPU board but I forgot
who. That reminds me now that I got a PDP-8 clone I am going have to
learn how to use it. So what is the best way to learn OS/8? I still
can't get over how many features this has considering the size of the
PDP-8 for memory.
cheers
Jules.