ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP (07/22/83)
From: Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA> Having just signed a non-disclosure agreement, I expect to receive a pre-release copy of CP/M-86 for the Z-100 from Zenith in the next few days. Official release to the general public will be early September. I also have Version 2.0 of ZDOS (MSDOS), complete with pipes, subdirectories, etc. I'm not sure of the general release date. It looks like, as part of my summer job, I will be porting CCP/M to the Z-100. If anyone knows of this already being done, let me know so I can avoid the trouble! As far as I have been told, Zenith is not porting CCP/M at present, and DR is not going to port it to anything but the IBM PC. Final note: Can anyone give me advice on converting aa CP/M-86 BIOS to a CCP/M XIOS? DR covers the conversion in one page of the manual, and it looks fairly straightforward, but any experiences will be appreciated.
POURNE@mit-mc@sri-unix.UUCP (08/28/83)
From: Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc> Needless to say, I am EXTREMELY interested in these projects. Perhaps we can work on an article? I'm tryng to follow the Z-100's progress. I am surprised that Zenith didn't send me a test version of CPM-86 for the Z-100. With that I can get Modula 2 running on Zorro... My BIOS expert is in Europe until October, so cannot help with conversion of BIOS. Alas. Best, JEP