Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:53:28 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: scott mcclellan <rockabyeinn@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new to os Message-ID: <CAHieY7Q-B3hRfukqfPFjdBn8vmU3B37eh2qPFCBymZHf5qg3Fg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110819012154.3c9e76aa.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <1313705889.77615.YahooMailNeo@web45712.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> <20110819012154.3c9e76aa.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> 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
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