Kernelnewbies Digest, Vol 71, Issue 26

Laurence Rochfort laurence.rochfort at gmail.com
Fri Oct 21 13:52:56 EDT 2016


Ah yes, you're correct. The Z80 ran the program and the 6502 then handled
I/O.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_%28BBC_Micro%29?wprov=sfla1

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, 18:40 , <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:04:50 -0000, Laurence Rochfort said:
>
> > The BBC Micro which was 6502 based had an add on that let you connect a
> Z80
> > straight onto the same bus.
>
> If I remember correctly, that one was basically an either/or - you could
> boot the 6502, or the Z80, but you couldn't run both at the same time....
>
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