8 Apr
2024
8 Apr
'24
5:59 p.m.
Wow,
I agree that there is clearly an incompatibility - I wonder how? CP/M
should be CP/M... Just the BDOS changed for the individual machine
hardware.
One thought is the screen RAM may be an issue with overlaying.
I suspect that Borland didn't notice, as the TRS80 Model 4 was really late
in the 8 bit world, having been released in 1983. The IBM PC was released
in 1981, so I suspect that by the time somebody ran CP/M on a Model 4,
Borland had moved onto PC/MS-DOS.
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On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 at 10:36, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
> Does the
Turbo Pascal run on those machines with trivial source file?
> or subsets of the Kermit code?
On Mon, 8 Apr 2024, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Haven't tried any other programs yet as I
really wanted Kermit but
none of the other CP/M Kermits work on these machines (at least not
so far) but the problem does appear to be that the program is just
to big.
I just can't believe none of he developers noticed or maybe that
was the point where they all gave up. :-)
Well, there is still the issue of whether it is an incompatability of that
version of Turbo Pascal with your machines, . . .
Are you running with 128K?
On machines that support it, 128K does NOT give you a TPA ("Transient
Program Area") larger than 64K, but it does give it almost 64K.
I wonder how large the TPA is on DOS based CP/M emulators, . . . ?
. . . and, of course, is there somewhere, a pre-compiled version of Kermit
for TRS80 CP/M?
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