On 02/06/2011 11:44 AM, Alan Cox wrote: <> > Yeah that may be a slightly obscure configuration ;) and probably about a > hundred times faster to emulate than for real. not really obscure. there where several s100 system that started out as z80, then updated as z80/m68k. most would boot up z80 and then transfer to m68k. 1] there where also z80/m68k cpu that could pass off to z80 any task that work i/o. 2] within these, z80/m68k, i/o cards had their own z80 w/memory and z80 family i/o chips. 3] when making i/o transfers, z80 could grab main memory and pull in data while m68k was working internal operations and using on board memory. using these structures made for some fast data handling. plus, considering their clock speed, they could hold their own in today's standards. > On the Z80 side you can in theory run UZI of course, or if you have > banked RAM then UZIX (which has a minimal TCP/IP even) ?uzi? | ?uzix? sounds strangle familiar, but recall does not bring it up. what i am familiar with is the machine pistol made in israel and a very fine peace to fire. i never had one, no 'class a', but i have some friends who own them. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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