Date   : Fri, 26 Oct 1990 23:24:33 GMT
From   : zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!percy!nosun!techbook!fzsitvay@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Frank Zsitvay)
Subject: Need info for an S-100 bus system

In article <11566@spool.cs.wisc.edu> tonyrich@titanic.cs.wisc.edu (Anthony
Rich) writes:
>Dag Erik Lindberg writes:
>
>>Cromix requires Cromemco's dual CPU card, and the OS itself runs on the
>>68000 CPU only.  You could run multiple CDOS sessions time-sliced on the
>>Z80 CPU.  (CDOS is/was their CP/M clone).
>
>That's Cromemco's "68000 Cromix"...I have an old version of it and
>still use it.  But Cromemco also sold a different product called
>"Z80 Cromix."  I saw it running once, a long, long time ago.
>
>Here's a blurb about Z80 Cromix from an old Cromemco product catalog:
>
[blurb deleted in the interest of saving space to justify my filling
of said space with meaningless text that you are reading right now]

>Not too bad for a cut-down UNIX-like OS that ran on a Z80 and floppies.
>I wonder if there are any surviving copies out there?

   if anyone does have a copy of it, could ya let me know??  sounds like
something i'd like to play with, maybe port it over to an sb180 that
runs at 12 mhz or so...
 
   that'd be wicked... a multi-user, multi-tasking machine the size of
a disk drive enclosure, with disk!!
 
   now, another question - does anyone know who produces z80 compatible
chips that run faster than 8 mhz??  i think hitachi makes a 12 mhz hd64180,
but i'm looking for something more like an nsc800.
 
   no, the 12mhz v20 doesn't count...  it doesn't execute z80 code...


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