Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!apple!voder!dtg.nsc.com!des
From: des@dtg.nsc.com (Desmond Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: 68k in an IBM AT
Summary: 68K in an AT - Sritek
Message-ID: <691@blenheim.nsc.com>
Date: 20 Feb 90 20:45:34 GMT
References: <1229@nixpbe.UUCP> <13308@muvms3.bitnet>
Distribution: comp
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
Lines: 17

In article <13308@muvms3.bitnet>, m043210@muvms3.bitnet (B MOORE) writes:
> In article <1229@nixpbe.UUCP>, capitain.pad@nixpbe.UUCP (Capitain) writes:
> > Hi, I posted this in comp.sys.ibm.pc, but got no answer yet.
> > Maybe someone in this group can help me...
> > 
> > I want to run 680x0 software on my AT. Is there a board with a
> > 680x0 processor for the AT (or is it possible to build such a
> > board), able to control the AT's hardware? Is it necessary to
> > stop the 80x86 processor or can both run at the same time?

Yes, a co. called Sritek did one. It was good. I do not know whether the
company is still alive.
  No, both DOS and UNIX (SYS5) could run simultaneously. I believe itt
used the DOS memory as a big disk cache, so once you loaded a file it
was fast (successive ls etc).
  It was expensive.
Des.