23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
9:21 a.m.
On 08/23/2012 02:24 AM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 22 Aug 2012 at 21:49, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I've ported it to most anything 8080/8085/NSC800/Z80/z180/z280
and its a fine OS for its day with loads of aps. Used and portd many
of the improved clones.
It's biggest limitation for me was the flat filesystem. It made
large disks awkward (aside from the 8mb limit CP/M2) for lots of
files. That and extended memory support in later versions was
not transparent to the aps.
However for the day [feom V1.3 though 1985ish] it was a bout the
best of the 8080/z80 OSs that could be ported to anything.
Note if you point out NS*dos or TRS80 LDOS [and the like] that
doesn't count as it was hardware and vendor specific.
Unlike many when CP/M came about in the mid 70s I'd experience
with OS/8 and TOPS-10 and wished that CP/M was more. But like
I said for the time and that CPU group swas the best for a
long while.
Allison
It *is* odd that CP/M induces relatively little
nostalgia and a whole
lot of nausea. You'd think that it would have its rabid partisans.
Not me. I
used it since about 1.3. I did my share of ports and
found the platform to be very limiting. CP/M Plus was getting there,
as was MP/M II, but for the most popular, CP/M 2.2, it's hard to get
excited about not much and a simplistic file management setup.
--Chuck