SAGE@LL.ARPA (04/26/89)
Local addressee: SAGE Message-ID: <SAGE.11637053@LL.ARPA> Grey Fox commented, "CP/M doesn't seem to even be considered an OS around here anymore" and asked, "Is CP/M still going anywhere or is it a dead end? I really wanna know." I just came back from the Trenton Computer Festival and was amazed at the level of CP/M (Z-System) interest there. Last year they gave us no publicity, and many people who were interested in our session did not know it was taking place or could not find out where it was. This year the publicity was good, and we had a room full of very interested people. Next year we plan to do even more and to demand some recognition from the organizers, who otherwise recognized little more than MS-DOS (even the MAC got short shrift). There is not much going on in CP/M proper, but Z-System, its modern minicomputer-calibre replacement, is extremely active. If Grey, or anyone else, is interested in learning more, I would suggest that they subscribe to The Computer Journal and pick up the last year's back issues. I published the information about TCJ not too long ago in a message here, but if there is popular demand, I will repeat it. Grey will probably face some difficult problems trying to do anything with the Vector computer (I'm assuming this is the VectorGraphic). As I recall, it uses the only disk format that our experts at the BCS CP/M Group were unable to crack. We had a member who used a VectorGraphic machine, and I might be able to secure a CP/M-2.2 boot diskette from him. -- Jay Sage