<s>
The	O
Tulip	O
System	O
I	O
is	O
a	O
16-bit	O
personal	B-Device
computer	I-Device
based	O
on	O
the	O
Intel	B-General_Concept
8086	I-General_Concept
and	O
made	O
by	O
Tulip	O
Computers	O
,	O
formerly	O
an	O
import	O
company	O
for	O
the	O
Exidy	B-Architecture
Sorcerer	I-Architecture
,	O
called	O
Compudata	O
Systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
Motorola	O
6845-based	O
video	B-General_Concept
display	I-General_Concept
controller	I-General_Concept
could	O
display	O
80×24	O
text	O
in	O
8	O
different	O
fonts	O
for	O
supporting	O
different	O
languages	O
,	O
including	O
a	O
(	O
Videotex-based	O
)	O
font	O
for	O
2×3	O
pseudo	O
graphic	O
symbols	O
for	O
displaying	O
160×72	O
pixel	O
graphics	O
in	O
text	B-Application
mode	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
video	B-General_Concept
display	I-General_Concept
generator	I-General_Concept
could	O
also	O
display	O
graphics	O
with	O
a	O
384×288	O
or	O
768×288	O
(	O
color	O
)	O
or	O
768×576	O
(	O
monochrome	O
)	O
pixel	O
resolution	O
using	O
its	O
built-in	O
NEC	B-Device
7220	I-Device
video	O
display	O
coprocessor	B-General_Concept
,	O
which	O
had	O
hardware	B-General_Concept
supported	I-General_Concept
drawing	I-General_Concept
functions	I-General_Concept
,	O
with	O
an	O
advanced	O
set	O
of	O
bit-block	O
transfers	O
it	O
could	O
do	O
line	O
generating	O
,	O
arc	O
,	O
circle	O
,	O
ellipse	O
,	O
ellipse	O
arc	O
,	O
filled	O
arc	O
,	O
filled	O
circle	O
,	O
filled	O
ellipse	O
,	O
filled	O
elliptical	O
arc	O
and	O
many	O
other	O
commands	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
included	O
a	O
SASI	O
hard	O
disk	O
interface	O
(	O
a	O
predecessor	O
of	O
the	O
SCSI-standard	O
)	O
and	O
was	O
optionally	O
delivered	O
with	O
a	O
5MB	O
or	O
10MB	O
hard	O
disk	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
runs	O
at	O
8MHz	O
with	O
a	O
true	O
16-bit	O
CPU	O
,	O
almost	O
twice	O
the	O
speed	O
of	O
the	O
IBM	B-Device
PC	I-Device
XT	I-Device
which	O
was	O
launched	O
only	O
a	O
few	O
months	O
earlier	O
in	O
July	O
1983	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
the	O
possibility	O
to	O
use	O
an	O
Intel	B-Device
8087	I-Device
math	O
coprocessor	B-General_Concept
,	O
which	O
increased	O
the	O
speed	O
to	O
>	O
200	O
kflops	O
,	O
which	O
was	O
near	O
mainframe	O
data	O
at	O
that	O
time	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
After	O
initially	O
using	O
CP/M	B-Operating_System
-86	I-Operating_System
,	O
it	O
quickly	O
switched	O
to	O
using	O
generic	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
2.00	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
was	O
a	O
rudimentary	O
IBM	O
BIOS-emulator	O
,	O
which	O
allowed	O
the	O
user	O
to	O
use	O
WordStar	B-Application
and	O
a	O
few	O
other	O
IBM-PC	O
software	O
,	O
but	O
Compudata	O
B.V.	O
shipped	O
WordStar	B-Application
and	O
some	O
other	O
software	O
as	O
adopted	O
software	O
for	O
this	O
computer	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
was	O
programming	O
support	O
by	O
Compudata	O
B.V.	O
with	O
MS-Basic	B-Language
,	O
MS-Pascal	B-Language
and	O
MS-Fortran	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
a	O
private	O
base	O
,	O
TeX	O
and	O
Turbo	B-Application
Pascal	I-Application
were	O
ported	O
to	O
the	O
Tulip	O
System	O
I	O
.	O
</s>
