23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
10:30 p.m.
On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:45 AM, 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.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
my 2 favorite cp/m machines were the Dec Rainbow and the Tandy 6000. the 6K could run
any of the many flavors of Model 2 CP/M plus it could run CP/M 68K (IIRC there were 2
flavors of that one for the 16/6000, Pickles and Trout and I want to say lighthouse, but
could be wrong on the second one.)
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.