"CP/M compatible" vs. "MS-DOS Compatible" machines? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Feb 2008

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Subject: Re: "CP/M compatible" vs. "MS-DOS Compatible" machines?
   From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
   Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:00:47 -0500
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>

On Sunday 03 February 2008 07:34, Allison wrote:
  On
Thursday 31 January 2008 10:07, Allison wrote:
  Whats more interesting is there was nothing to
prevent a termcap file
 and later improved CP/M work alikes did exactly that and many more
 things. 
What sort of stuff would you put into the category of "CP/M work alikes"?

 NOvados, DOS+, ZRdos, Zsdos and ZCPR addons to CP/M.  They all could run
 CP/M programs but added things missing from basic V2.2.  The gotacha was
 they required z80 as they were stuffing all that into the same space
 required by V2.2. 
Not much of a gotcha,  I don't think I'll be doing much with the 8080 these 
days anyhow,  and pretty much every single one of the CP/M boxes I have on 
hand here are all equipped with a Z80.

ZCPR I've run across,  those others are not familiar to me.  Are they out 
there and available?  Might be worth a look at them if so. 
Try google and expect a lot of results.  They have been out there for 
years.

Allison