kenw@noah.arc.CDN (Ken Wallewein) (09/15/87)
>As far as "mods", if you mean modifying your 8-bit memory boards to >work in 16-bit mode, I hope you aren't serious. When you can buy a >megabyte of 16-bit ram for $500? How much is your time worth? At >a dollar an hour, you're probably still better off going for a new >board. See the ads in Micro/Systems Journal or Computer Shopper. Actually, no, I wasn't serious. But do you know where I can get $500? I buy (scrounge) my S100 boards for <$50 apiece from people who have them sitting around and are glad to get _anything_ for them. THAT'S hobbyist prices. It's like the man who wished he could afford an elephant. He didn't really want an elephant; he just wished he could afford one :-). Is it really nothing special for the average hobbyist to spend $500 or so on a new board? I guess what I'm wondering is, how many of the people who read this list are purely hobbyists in regards to CP/M, as apposed to being able to justify their expenditures business-wise? Businesses can't afford the time a hobbyist can spend. I've downloaded 3 different Public Domain BDOSes from the new archive-server. SUPERBDOS looks nice, especially the disk relogging features. It's based on P2DOS. However, I also got DOS+, which has DU: directory support, wheel byte, and a bunch of stuff like that. Does anybody have any experience with these, and how they compare to ZRDOS? /kenw