Timeline for What's the TUBE interface of the BBC micro all about?
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| Dec 30, 2023 at 1:07 | comment | added | gidds | (In 2023/4 prices, the 6502 second processor would be nearer £830, and the Z80 £1,250 — highlighting the expense!) | |
| Jan 13, 2020 at 22:19 | comment | added | AndyF | Acorn's Level 2 and 3 file servers ( ran on BBC Micro ) required a 6502 second processor. Indeed the program to init a hard drive for server use required one to run as the DIM array used to build and write the disk maps would not of fitted into a standard 32K machine . As per usual that can sometimes be circumvented but the actual server software requirement not so easy as the program code itself was > 32KB :D | |
| Oct 31, 2017 at 3:10 | comment | added | KJ Seefried | @tofro The University of Cambridge had a Tube attached NS32016 based co-processor based system that ran an OS called Panos (which they later used in their stand-alone Acorn Cambridge Workstation). I don't know much about it, and it didn't seem much more sophisticated than MS-DOS, although it did have a built in concept of networking. I've repeatedly heard that there was a Unix for the Tube attached NS32016 co-processors, but I've never been able to confirm that. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 2:26 | comment | added | Tommy | @tofro plenty; if it's a 6502 second processor then anything that uses the MOS for input and output, plus others — e.g. youtube.com/watch?v=nIuOjEqY8Hk a version of Elite that uses both processors at once. | |
| May 14, 2017 at 19:36 | comment | added | tofro | Nice answer. Was there software that could be had that could actually make use of tube-connected hardware? | |
| May 14, 2017 at 11:31 | history | answered | pndc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |