On 4/25/17, 7:52 PM, "cctalk on behalf of Jim Brain via cctalk" <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org on behalf of cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>On 4/25/2017 9:47 PM, Peter Cetinski wrote: >> The 16B released around 1984 is essentially a factory upgraded Model 12 >>with the card cage and the 6Mhz MC68000 subsystem consisting of a CPU >>card and 1 or more 16 bit memory cards. The 16B for a time was the best >>selling Unix workstation in the world. >So, the 16B has the KB conn on the machine, but the KB? >And, the 16B has the Z80 motherboard, witht eh 68K in the cage? >> >> The 6000 released in 1985 was a slightly enhanced 16B with the biggest >>difference being the upgrade to an 8Mhz MC68000. This system allowed >>you to run XENIX 3.x and address up to 1MB of RAM. >I thought the 16B could also do 1MB of RAM? > >Can the 6000 still run the Z80 Oses (like TRSDOS II and such)? (I >assume so, since you noted that all units of this entire line used a Z80 >for IO) > >Jim > Yes they can, plus there were a couple versions of cp/m 68k for them plus software to use the 68k plus ram as a ramdisk
