On 4/24/24 13:10, David Brownlee via cctalk wrote: > Typically the second processor would run as primary, using the > original 6502 to handle input, display and I/O (and on 32016 you > *really* wanted someone else to deal with anything time critical like > interrupts :)
Thats the way we did it on the Poppy--the 80186 did the I/O for the 80286. You could run CP/M-86 or MSDOS without the 80286. I never did figure out if the 80286 at 6MHz was outperformed on MSDOS by the 8MHz 80186. --Chuck
