Cromemco (was Re: S-100 bus specs)

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Thu Mar 18 16:11:50 1999

Wasn't there a cromeNco as well, into video products, or have I been
mis-spelling it for years?. By the way if you go to www.commodore.com you get
a hazardous waste cleanup service's web page. Weird....

Ward D. Griffiths III wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, James Willing wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > > ...Cromemco actively manufactured S-100 systems
> > > until they went out of business in around 1986 or so.
> >
> > as much as I absolutely hate to contradict... <BIG B^} >
> >
> > You may want to take a look at www.cromemco.com before you cast the
> > previous thot in stone...
>
> Hmm. The history file contains no mention of their first product,
> the TV Dazzler.
>
> On the other hand, their newer system, the CCube, looks sweet. Of
> course, the real question is "When will Linux run on it?". Since
> at this point, Linux can't quite handle an array of 1024
> processors. (Maybe by kernel 2.4).
> --
> Ward Griffiths
> "the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
> you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
Received on Thu Mar 18 1999 - 16:11:50 GMT