emulator board help

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_northernway.net>
Date: Tue Apr 29 00:29:51 1997

Whilst in a self-induced trance, hellige happened to blather:
>On 28-Apr-97, classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu wrote:
>
>>I seem to recall that Definicon made coprocessor boards (68000 series, and
>>maybe 32016 series as well) for PC's. You rean special language compilers
>>on the PC that converted your high-level source into machine code for the
>>68000 or whatever, and ran it on the coprocessor board
>
> What would be the point in doing this though, if the board didn't
emulate a
>specific 68000 series computer?

Jeff,

It's way past my bedtime, but I just had to comment on this post...

Believe it or not, the board doesn't have to emulate a specific 68K
computer... it *is* a specific 68K computer!

The board quite possibly was a system that would just use the PeeCee's
hard/floppy/parallel/serial (etc.) ports and would run OS-9/68K or another
viable 68K operating system of the day (Xenix?). This in itself is not
new... shortly after the IBM-PC came out there was a 68000 board for it
that ran OS-9. Remember, the 68K was first, and by then already had several
super-powerful (compared to MS-Dog) OS's available for the platform. I have
a review of one in an old copy of Byte laying around somewhere around here.

BTW, put away the asbestos... it's not a flame! I'm just tired (& cranky)
and don't have a bad case of run-on fingers like usual!

See ya,
"Merch"
--
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Programmer, NorthernWay | nuclear warhead disarmament should *not*
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Received on Tue Apr 29 1997 - 00:29:51 BST

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