29 Nov
2006
29 Nov
'06
6:22 a.m.
And thusly were the wise words spake by Mike van Bokhoven
From: "M H Stein" <dm561 at torfree.net>
Subject: multiple cpu machines Re: rogues galleries
How about the Sega MegaDrive/Genesis? That ran a 68000 and Z80. If I
remember rightly, the Z80 handled the startup procedure, handing off to the
68000 when things seemed to be under control. After that point, I think it
was still available for parallel tasks, and was often used for sound
processing. Its main purpose seemed to be to maintain backwards
compatability with the prior model, the Master System.
Speaking of game consoles, there are also quite a few arcade boards
that use multiple CPUs.
Cheers,
Bryan
>Ahh, I was originally asking after systems
with different CPUs though,
not
>several of the same type - mainly to rule out
lots of posts about
parallel
>machines (as I was curious as to how many
manufacturers managed to make a
go
>of selling 'average' systems with a
mixture of CPU types - parallel
machines
tend to be
in a different league)
Cromemco DPU? Z80 and 68000 on one S-100 card; add an IOP
Serial I/O
card, and you've got another Z80...