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From: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Memory/MS-DOS boards
Message-ID: <558@mcnc.mcnc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-May-85 21:23:12 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 26 21:23:12 1985
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Reply-To: ravi@mcnc.UUCP (Ravi Subrahmanyan)
Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC
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Summary: 

The Kaypro IV is Z80 based, but it is possible to have an
MS-DOS board, with an 8088, memory, etc. piggybacked onto
it; this board is then an independent computer, which uses the
regular Z80 cp/m for the keyboard/screen interface, ports, etc.
 (which is why getting something like an MS-DOS modem program 
to run on one of these is quite a hassle).  The memory on the 
8088 based board can probably also be used as a Ramdisk for the
regular cp/m case, and so on.  One company making such a board for
the Kaypro is SWP Microcomputer Products, Fort Worth, TX.  They make
boards called CO-POWER 88, and CO-POWER + which offer a fair amount of
PC compatibility for Kaypros (even Lotus can be run).  The 8088 board
can also do CP/M 86.  Memory can be upto 1Meg for the + board, but
is limited to 256K for the 88.  I'm sure there are other such boards 
that can be used; I'd like to know if anyone has had good/bad 
experiences with any of these.

-=ravi=-                               decvax!mcnc!ravi

Oh, and I've nothing to do with SWP, etc. etc.