13 Oct
2000
13 Oct
'00
4:07 p.m.
HI Bill,
I just got home and I'm catching up on my E-mail. I'm working on the
lastest ones so the answers will be somewhat mixed up but I'll try to
answer your questions.
At 04:20 PM 10/13/00 -0500, you wrote:
I was hoping that I could get some useful OS running, CPM would be great; I
have several CPM machines already, so it's not totally foreign to me. Would
I need a different CPU card, or other hardware to run CP/M? For that
matter, who ported the CPM to this architecture? I assume that the MDS
architecture is totally weird & proprietary...
Go to "http://www.gaby.de/efcpm.htm" and click on the interview with
Gary Kidall. Briefly, he said that he borrowed one of these machines from
Intel and wrote both PLM and CP/M on that machine. He said that Intel
bought PLM but not CPM. If you look at the examples in the code examples in
the CP/M manuals you'll see that the headers state that they were
configured for the Intel MDS machine. Furthermore I've been told that the
BDOS and BIOS on the **GEBERIC** CPM OS disks were already configured for
the Intel MDS. If that's true then you should be able to put a **GENERIC**
CPM boot disk in the MDS and boot it with little or no changes. If (when?)
I ever get a generic CPM disk I'd like to try it. Also by using the code
examples in the CPM manuals you should be able to reconfigure just about
any machine-varity of CPM to work on the MDS.
Joe