What I wondered was which CPU runs the IP stack.
Do you know? Is the source code where one can look it over?
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: email/browser for DOS or C64/128?
> > Which CPU does this use? The COMMODOREs of that era had both the Z80 and
the
> > 65xx, didn't they?
>
> The C128 has a Z80 and 8502 (6502 derivative) but they do not operate
> simultaneously. The Z80 in the C128 is virtually only used for CP/M; very
> little native mode software uses it. (Interestingly, it is the master
> processor on bootup -- see
>
> http://www.retrobits.com/ckb/secret/d128.html
>
> ). All other Commodore 8-bits are 6502-based only, although there is a
> Z80 cartridge for the C64 to allow it to run CP/M 2.2.
>
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