Date   : Tue, 05 Aug 1986 13:41:36 GMT
From   : Jay Denebeim <jay%ethos.uucp@BRL.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Kaypro question

       The answer to your question is 'sort of'.  SWP makes (made?) a piggy
back board that contained an 8088  and 256/512K of memory.  It gave you a ram
disk in Kaypro mode, and allowed you to run MS-DOS on the 8088.  NOTE this does
not mean IBM compatible.  It had no graphics, and the memory map doesn't look
at all like the IBM.  It will run MS-DOS software, not IBM software.  This
constitutes around 10% of the total IBM software.  WordStar 3.0 would run, but
not 3.3, DBase II, but not DBase III etc.  The reason for this is the IBM is
*SLOW* and people found the only way to get decient speed out of the beast  was
to blow the DOS away and drive the hardware directly, added to this MS-DOS has
no graphics support in it, and you'll see that not very much IBM software is
going to run on the thing.

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