Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!emjhm From: emjhm@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Zenith 100 - (nf) Message-ID: <5294@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 31-Jan-84 23:22:11 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5294 Posted: Tue Jan 31 23:22:11 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 07:27:34 EST Lines: 13 #R:ut-ngp:-24200:uokvax:7900011:000:670 uokvax!emjhm Jan 30 17:01:00 1984 The Z-100 does indeed hane an IEE-696 S-100 bus in it. The 8085 and 8088 processors work in tandem and appear as a single master cpu on the bus. As for "Standard S-100 single board processors and hard disk controllers" just play like you have a processor and memory board installed in the S-100 bus that can't be removed. The S-100 bus wil tolerate slave processors on the bus but the slave will have to be given the bus by the 8085 or 8088 processors that are always present and must be running to keep the display going. I'm not sure how much trouble you would have in trying to get a single board S-100 processors to play slave to the Z-100 processors. Jim Miller