Date   : Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:10:50 +0000
From   : robert@... (Rob)
Subject: Tube on the Archimedes

On 10/03/2010, Theo Markettos <theo@...> wrote:

> We all know that the BBC was used as a host system for ARM development.  But
> is there any other Tube support out there, perhaps with the Archimedes as
> host?  I know there was a Tube podule - was there any software for it?  I
> think I saw some mention in the RISC OS source (can't grep it at the moment,
> but probably old code from the ARM-as-parasite days).  Did 65Tube ever talk
> via a real Tube? Were there any other Tube applications for the Arc?

I'm no expert, but the RISC machines do seem to support multiple
processors - the 486 boards being a case in point.  I've always
assumed that they work in a similar way to the Tube on the 8-bit
systems, but I've no real basis for that assumption..