23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
7:11 a.m.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Mike Loewen wrote:
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
While I like the Kaypros, I prefer my TRS-80 Model 4 as a CP/M system.
Back in the day, I ran Montezuma Micro CP/M 2.2 on this system and with its
second bank of 64KB available as a RAMdisk, it was quite snappy. MM also had
the capability of defining virtual drives as other CP/M formats, so you could
have, for example, a D: drive set up as a Kaypro or Osborne format.
The only issue I have with the Model 4 (I've got one as well) is the lack
of { and } keys. Makes it damn difficult to write C code. :) (but that
just makes Turbo Pascal 3 even more attractive!)
g.
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I think
Kaypros are among the best CP/M machines ever built.
I like the Kaypros fine, but I like the Commodore 128 better for CP/M. It
may be slow, but it's a nice implementation.