MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET (Alexandre Montaron) (03/20/91)
Hello| First thing... about ZP/EM (Media Master)... i haven't test it at all, but it emulat really faster than Z80MU... In Z80MU each BIOS function and BDOS entry point are replaced by the HALT instruction (which is trap) i think it's also true for ZP/EM but i've not look at | What's the price of Z80MU commercial release? To the person who have a Amstrad CPC 6128 (like me) where are you? In europe i suppose... In U.K. ? In Frence (like me...) ? Does a HARD DISK exist for the Amstrad ??? Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9 this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal... The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ... Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group | Bye| Alexandre Montaron <MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET>
ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) (03/21/91)
MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET (Alexandre Montaron) writes: > Hello| > > First thing... about ZP/EM (Media Master)... i haven't test it at all, > but it emulat really faster than Z80MU... In Z80MU each BIOS function and > BDOS entry point are replaced by the HALT instruction (which is trap) > i think it's also true for ZP/EM but i've not look at | > What's the price of Z80MU commercial release? I've never heard of that one. Who puts that one out? I would like to kick the tires on that one. As for the "HALT" instruction, it does seem a logical way to write a software emulation of the BIOS. As for how MS-DOS picks it up, curious how that would work. Nick Sayer wrote someting similar, but this is under UNIX. > To the person who have a Amstrad CPC 6128 (like me) where are you? > In europe i suppose... In U.K. ? In Frence (like me...) ? > Does a HARD DISK exist for the Amstrad ??? You might want to try either Emerald MicroWare (whose address I could go and snag) if anyone wants it) or any type of controller that plugs into the Z80 slot. Most of these controllers come with software that will talk to the hard disk no matter what kind of machine it's running on. I've seen such a setup which even comes with source code for its BIOS so it's possible for me to get a system like this for my Ampro (for which I have source for its BIOS _AND_ main ROM) such that the entire BIOS which will talk to both hard and floppy disks is entirely self-contained, and can even boot from the hard disk and not have to boot only from the floppy and manually (or semiautomatically) run a hard drive initialization program (not format, but put routines up so the system can talk to the hard drive). > Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by > COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know > it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9 > this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal... > The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ... > Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group | > Bye| Alexandre Montaron <MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET> Gads, you have me salivating!!!!! I know this part of the message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this: Will it be available in the US? If so, that could finally put purely UNIX machines in the hands of commoners. Then I could gloat as my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do.
rrezaian@austral.UUCP (Russell Rezaian) (03/24/91)
In article <ToL6y1w164w@ijpc.UUCP> ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman) writes: >MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET (Alexandre Montaron) writes: >> Other thing... I perhaps will bought a prototype Unix machine made by >> COMMODORE... His name is C900, it works with a Z8001 (i suppose you know >> it?), it has a HD 20Mo, one floppy 5"1/4, 512Ko de RAM... OS: Unix Beta0.9 >> this is also four RS232C, a monochrome terminal... >> The price is 3000Fr so about $600 ... >> Doesany one ever heard of this machine... i'll ask in the COMMODORE group | >> Bye| Alexandre Montaron <MONTARON@FRP8V11.BITNET> > >Gads, you have me salivating!!!!! I know this part of the >message belongs elsewhere, but I thought I'd ask this: Will it >be available in the US? If so, that could finally put purely >UNIX machines in the hands of commoners. Then I could gloat as >my pro-MESSY-DOS friends are dumbfounded of what it could do. Yes this is wrong place, but the thread has already started. The C900 seems to be one of many Commodore European orphan machines, if you are interested in UNIX then look to the Amiga 3000 UX, this machine is based off of the Amiga 3000 68030 platform, is already in final beta stages, and is the first machine out there to run UNIX SV r4. Drool drool drool!!! I have talked with a Commodore rep and supposedly it will sell with the entire UNIX package, X.11 and I think it was open look, NFS(TCP/IP), an ethernet board, a 200 meg hard drive and either 6 or 8 megs of ram for well under 10,000. The system also will support the 24bit color card that is coming out soon... By the way, it will also turn into an Amiga 3000 with just a slightly different boot up procedure (you use the mouse to pull up a boot menu and click on Amiga or UNIX for what you want). This isn't a chep machine, but it is a nice looking low end workstation, and it blows away anything I have seen in the Mac arena... -- +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | Russell Rezaian | amiganet.chi.il.us!austral!rrezaian | | P.O. Box 479 | | | Naperville, Il. 60566-0479 | "One is best punished for one's | | USA | Virtues." Nietzsche. | +-------------------------------+---------------------------------------+