CP/M for IBM Displaywriter

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Sun May 15 11:17:24 CDT 2016


On 05/14/2016 11:19 PM, Ali wrote:
> One more link before I turn in:
> 
> https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA2&ots=LkXMmddRn6&dq=ibm%20displaywriter%20cp%2Fm-86&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=true
>
>  Apparently other companies were developing and selling SW for the
> CP/M-86 on the Dispalywriter.

I know that VEDIT was offered for the DW, but I'm not certain if it was
done for the CP/M-86 version.

Looking at the disk image, while I don't see anything resembling an
ASCII-to-EBCDIC translation table, it's obvious that CP/M on the DW kept
with the ASCII representation internally.   This brings up the question
of collating sequences and what to do about EBCDIC characters that have
no corresponding ASCII representation.

--Chuck


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