ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA (Alan Bomberger) (04/26/88)
I have been away for awhile but found some topics worth commenting on in the last two montsh traffic. First CP/M+ I got my generic version from S100 Systems some years ago and even they were suprized that they had it (I ordered from a 1 year old catalog) and I doubt that they have it now. I wish that DR would officially disown CP/M+ so that I could give (note GIVE) away copies of the generic software (not that manuals though as they are very thick). I found one overwhelming reason to chose CPM+ over Z system which was the large TPA possible with CPM+ and the smaller TPA available with Z system. I was haveing trouble and did not want to go smaller. As a supplier of RSX style code (Write-Hand-Man in particular) I found the standard interface for such in CPM+ to be a dream come true. Nonstandard CPM2 systems abound.. I recently switched to 3.5 inch disks for an odd reason. Only 3.5 inch disks fit into a standard bank safe deposit box. That did it for me. Now I have a bunch of 8 inch and 96TPI 5 inch drives lying around unused. As to Mice. Skip all the crap and geta RAW MOUSE. The output of a raw mouse is easy to read on a Parrallel input port and very cheap these days. (many will say that it aint easy but if you want a copy of an article that was just about to be published in DDJ before they got raped send a SSEE and a buck or so to "Poor Person Software, 3721 Starr King Circle, Palo Alto, CA 94306") This article describes how to put a quadrature mouse into your BIOS to supply cursor characters as the mouse moves. Works with ALL software and is a small BIOS addition.