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Re: Multi-Tasking on Apple IIgs?

Subject: Re: Multi-Tasking on Apple IIgs?
From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
Date: 13 Mar 2005 20:56:48 -0800
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David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> writes:
> Do any co-processor cards for the Apple II family have on-board RAM allowing
> them to run completely independently of the motherboard (apart from I/O)?

Some Z-80 cards do, but the Microsoft Z-80 Softcard and its clones do not.

Some 68000 cards do, as well as the one-of-a-kind 68020/68881 coprocessor
card I built in 1986:
    http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/apple/apple2/68020/

Eric

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