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> On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 11:46 -0400, tfreeman at intel.digichem.net wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 May 2005, Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> > 
> > > On Friday 27 May 2005 06:52 am, aaron wrote:
> > > | Your list of 1980's era computer contemporaries relying on Basic might 
> > > have 
> > > | also included the Texas Instruments Home Computer, the TI-99 (1981), 
> > > though 
> > > | those were 16 bit systems as well.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Weren't the first Trash-80s 8-bit boxes? They came with the same
> > > cassette tape drives and low-density, single-sided, 5.25 floppy
> > > drives as the Commodores and the Ataris.
> 
> > As I recall, TRS-80 was considered an 8-bit system, as it was based upon 
> > the Z-80 processor. The earliest systems shipped with only cassette tape 
> > drives, with floppy drives available later. The Z-80 used an 8-bit word, 
> > but used 16 bit addressing. The processor of the Apple II was truely 
> > 8-bit, but that opens up a whole new can of wormy discussion. 8-).
> 
> 	The TRS-80 Coco (Color Computer), which was a different beast entirely,
> was a 6809 processor.  That was a 16 bit processor (internal) with an 8
> bit bus (external).  Later, you were able to get OS-9 for it (the "9" in
> OS-9 comes from the 680"9" for which it was designed though it was later
> ported to the 68000+ family line and is still a popular embedded OS).

Rats. I completely forgot about the Coco systems and OS-9. 

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