SAGE@LL.ARPA (12/30/87)
Ted A. Campbell commented and asked: >> About a year ago I called Echelon to ask if they had ever ported ZCRP3 to >> a CP/M Plus system. They responded that CP/M Plus was a mistake from the >> start and that they had no intention of porting ZCPR3 for CPM3. So I'm >> interested to learn that such a project is underway. >> >> Does anyone know (a) what advantages the CP/M Plus version of ZCPR3 would >> have over CCP+; There was always an interest in porting ZCPR3 to CP/M-Plus systems. We just never before saw any way to do it in a universal way (i.e., not a separate port for each type of CP/M+ system) and without an enormous amount of work. Once Bridger Mitchell conceived a way to achieve a universal port, we became highly enthusiastic about the project. There are a lot of CP/M+ machines out there, and many of their owners have been asking for ZCPR3 for a long time. I have not looked at CCP+, which I believe is a limited implementation of an earlier version of ZCPR. I suspect that ZCPR3 is a far more powerful command processor than CCP+. If nothing else, there is a vast array of ZCPR3 support programs (history shells, alias processors, file maintenance shells, and many more), and the number is still growing at a significant rate. The Z community is large and enthusiastic, and if it can join forces with the CP/M+ community, we will all win.