2 Feb
2008
2 Feb
'08
4:06 p.m.
Subject: Re: "CP/M compatible" vs. "MS-DOS Compatible" machines?
From: Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 10:16:28 -0800 (PST)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Allison wrote:
I did a small amount of work with ISIS, but after I had used CP/M. I
used an Intel PDS development system for the 8051 to debug some
firmware; I think it was for DEC's SCSI floppy controller.
Use a MDS to bring up CP/M2.2 on a NEC PDA-80 an 8080 based FP machine
that had a remex tape punch reader. Yep configured CP/M, bolted on a
bios and punched it to PT!
From:
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
After having used ISIS before CP/M, I was happy to see the "lean and
mean" CP/M. ISIS was verbose, clumsy and slow (e.g., :F0: instead of
A: for the first floppy drive; "DELETE" instead of "ERA").
Also an ISIS user. The usual OS used on the shop MDS was not ISIS
but instead CP/M! The PDS was interesting in that it was a portable
system about the size
of a Kaypro and had *two* 8085s. ISIS gave you an A> or B> prompt, but
it indicated to which processor you were speaking rather than which
drive was the default.
It was a bizzare little box.
Allison
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roger ivie
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