Releasing OS/2

[John Honniball]

woodelf wrote:
> Circuit Cellar had a Z8000 and on card for the PC once.

It was called the Trump Card, and was described by
Steve Ciarcia in the May and June 1984 issues of
Byte.

> Does anybody remember just what it ran?

It had a clone of the MS-DOS BASICA, called TBASIC.
It claimed to run BASICA programs on the Z8000, much
faster than they ran on the 8088.  There was also a
C compiler, a Z80 emulator that ran CP/M, a RAM disk
for MS-DOS, a debugger and a language compiler
called Y.  The article ends with a claim that UNIX
will be available for the board.

> Other than 386's was there any other add on cards for 
> the PC?

There was the Definicon board for the PC with a National
Semiconductor 32000 chip on it.  Also decribed in Byte,
a few years after the Trump Card.

-- 
John Honniball
coredump at gifford.co.uk