From: John Wilson <wil...@dbit.com> > And what was that Z8000-based BASIC coprocessor (or at least, > I think that was the only software for it) on a long ISA card? He did > some crazy stuff!
Indeed. Z8001/Trump Card was in the May & June 1984 issues of Byte. There was a BASIC and a C compiler. I heard that it was a minor commercial success as some big company used them as a DB accelerator of some sort using custom programming. Would be interesting to track down that story. I vaguely recall Ciarcia did a 68000 or 32000 ISA card, but my google-fu fails me; probably misremembering. The video board for the SB180 was very cool, featuring an HD63484 video controller. Pretty advanced stuff back in those days. KJ
