How about the Dimension 68K? CP/M _and_ Apple, TRS-80 and MS-Dos all in one
machine with a separate floppy drive for each.
Neil Morrison
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Subject: Re: Best CP/M machine? -- sorry
You recently posted a message which only
contained the text from my
original
inquiry -- an editing error, perhaps? If so how
about resending your
reply?
Ooops!!!
Here you are
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What was the best CP/M based machine for
business? Are applications and
utilities still obtainable? What about
development tools and
documentation?
Your opinions, please.
I am going to leave out all the S100 machines. Not because I don't like
them - I do. But an S100 machine is really defined by what cards you put
in it, rather than the box. And thus there are far too many choices to
reasonably commment on.
OK, so restricting the list to essentially pre-configured machines, and
remembering that I'm a hardware hacker, the ones I particularly like are :
The Epson QX10. It's got up to 256K of bank-switched RAM. It's got an NEC
7220 graphics chip and a bitmapped display (on which it supports multiple
text fonts). It's got the wonderful Epson voice-coil floppy drives.
The DEC Rainbow. A twin-processor machine, Z80 and 8088. You can run
CP/M-80 programs on the Z80, with 62K (IIRC) of memory. There's an
optional bitmapped colour card with (yet again) an 7220.
There were 'business' progams (spreadsheets, word processors, etc) for
both of those. Development tools (at least an assembler) should be
available somewhere.
-tony