Date : Thu, 09 Nov 1989 03:16:20 GMT
From : snorkelwacker!spdcc!xylogics!world!madd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (jim frost)
Subject: Ever hear of Molecular Computer?
litwack@dccs.upenn.edu (Mark Litwack) writes:
>I've stumbled into posession of an interesting 16 user CP/M machine
>called a SuperMicro 32X from Molecular Computer, Inc. Each user gets
>their own Z-80 processor and they all sit on an 8 bit CSMA/CD bus with
>one processor that takes care of a shared hard disk, floppy, and tape drive.
Interesting. It sounds almost identical to an MS-DOS machine I put
together a few years ago; one CPU per person, up to 32 CPUs total.
And I thought it was a novel idea.... :-)
jim frost
software tool & die "The World" Public Access Unix for the '90s
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