INfoworld, March 3 1980, pages 4-5
inteview with Bill Godbout of Godbout Electronics (AKA Compupro)
by Mark Garetz (co-author of Interfacing to S-100 / IEEE-696 Microcomputers)

Q: What new products do you have planned for the immediate future?

BG: As you know, we don't approve of the practice that a lot of manufacturers emply,
of advertizing a product and taking orders for it before it exists. But i can tell you about
some of the things we're working on.

You heard me refer to the power of a 16-bit CPU, and I'm really excited about our new CPU
board that has a 5MHz 8085 as well as a 5MHz 8088 on board. either processor can run on
the S-100 bus with letter perfect S-100 timing per the standard. I really think that this marriage
is the pefect interim solution to running with 16-bit power at this time in what has been a 
predominantly 8-bit world

The 8088 is Intel's version of the 8086. It uses an 8-bit external bus structure, but internally is a full
16-bit machine that executes 8086 code. the 8088 has a 20-bit address bus, but with our 
memory management scheme, which is built into the CPU board, you have access to the full 16MB
address space on the new S-10 bus with either the 8085 or the 8088.

This is the first wave of CPU's that give the S-100 bus the power of a full minicomputer; the 8085 on
board allows the user to run in a familiar environment, such as CP/M, and then to switch over to the
8088 for true computational power. For example, a powerful and fast 8086/8088 BASIC is now
available from Microsoft., but there is no 8086 DOS available. The new CPU will solve this problem
by allowing the 8085 to run the DOS, while the 8088 does the computing work. This also allows the
user to use the same disk drives and other I/O without having to rewrite complicated driver routines.

Another product that the folks at Microsoft have come out with is a full-blown Macro Assembler for the
8088/8086 that is written in 8085 code and runs under CP/M. that package and our board make the 
perfect development system, to my mind. 

I think that this new CPU is the single more exciting thing that we have happening today...

[Godbout discusses other Compupro/Godbout s-100 products, such as a "number cruncher board" with other
features that is likely their System Support 2 board; memory manager; color graphics. 

- frm the Google books archive of InfoWorld, typed by Herb Johnson Oct 2014