Tomcat, the venture start-up that developed the dual IBM-NEC standard personal computer being sold by Proside Inc, has added a soft channel mode to its machines which also provides compatibility with Toshiba’s J3100 laptop: Tomcat previously developed its own architecture, called VSL for virtual system logic, which loads its own ROM BIOS into high-speed RAM; it then developed a J3100-compatible BIOS which is loaded from a floppy disk directly into RAM and it says the technique can be applied to other BIOSes as well, and the next target will be the IBM 5550.
TOMCAT ADDS SOFT CHANNEL MODE TO ITS MACHINES
