Date   : Tue, 31 Jan 1984 20:22:11-PST (Tue)
From   : pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjhm@ucb-vax
Subject: Re: Zenith 100 - (nf)

#R:ut-ngp:-24200:uokvax:7900011:000:670
uokvax!emjhm    Jan 30 17:01:00 1984

The Z-100 does indeed hane an IEE-696 S-100 bus in it.  The 8085 and 8088
processors work in tandem and appear as a single master cpu on the bus.
As for "Standard S-100 single board processors and hard disk controllers"
just play like you have a processor and memory board installed in the S-100
bus that can't be removed.  The S-100 bus wil tolerate slave processors on
the bus but the slave will have to be given the bus by the 8085 or 8088
processors that are always present and must be running to keep the display
going.  I'm not sure how much trouble you would have in trying to get
a single board S-100 processors to play slave to the Z-100 processors.
Jim Miller