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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Ever hear of Molecular Computer?
Message-ID: <1989Nov9.031620.4067@world.std.com>
Date: 9 Nov 89 03:16:20 GMT
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Organization: Software Tool & Die
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litwack@dccs.upenn.edu (Mark Litwack) writes:
>I've stumbled into posession of an interesting 16 user CP/M machine
>called a SuperMicro 32X from Molecular Computer, Inc.  Each user gets
>their own Z-80 processor and they all sit on an 8 bit CSMA/CD bus with
>one processor that takes care of a shared hard disk, floppy, and tape drive.

Interesting.  It sounds almost identical to an MS-DOS machine I put
together a few years ago; one CPU per person, up to 32 CPUs total.
And I thought it was a novel idea.... :-)

jim frost
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