Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis

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From: Mike Spencer
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 17:31

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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:

> Did the emulator emulate an 8080 or a Z80?  IIRC dBase II needed a
> Z80.

Don't remember.

> dBase II wasn't an Osborne-specific product.  I had it on my
> Z-89 and it went through a number of iterations on the PC before
> Foxbase ate it.

I vaguely recall some other indicators, back when I was using the
Osbornes, that their version of dBase II had been compiled
specifically for the Osborne.  All lost now in the mysto fogs of
time. 

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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