From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 03:53:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30F1106564A for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:53:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aimass@yabarana.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B291E8FC14 for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:53:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws18 with SMTP id 18so2722077vws.13 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:53:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.24.244 with SMTP id x20mr1598496vdf.205.1313726008557; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: aimass@yabarana.com Received: by 10.220.72.213 with HTTP; Thu, 18 Aug 2011 20:53:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110819012154.3c9e76aa.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1313705889.77615.YahooMailNeo@web45712.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <20110819012154.3c9e76aa.freebsd@edvax.de> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:28 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: G2W-gjtEXFsaq0y-poLaTmnGAWM Message-ID: From: Alejandro Imass To: Polytropon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: scott mcclellan , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new to os X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 03:53:30 -0000 On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: [...] > Furthermore, I always thought the TRS-80 ran CP/M, not DOS, > but I could be wrong as I (1st) didn't do any research on > it (first sin!) and (2nd) don't own one so I could check. > They ran many things. I had several, even an older TRS-80 Model 16, rarely knon. It had a passive backplane and 2 mother-boards. One was the traditiona Z-80 board which if I remember correctly had 2 Z-80s in a design similar to the Epson QX10. It also came with a second board with a 16bit Motorola 68000 ! You would first boot in CPM the Z80 board and the insert the Boot 16 disk which would boot-up the 68K.It was an icredible machine and software for both processors. I don't know exactly what the 68K board ran because it was kinda user-space boot. I also had the TRS-80 Color Computers which booted in BASIC, and finally the later series in the late eighties had DOS. I has one of those as well. -- Alejandro Imass