harkins@sri-unix (11/30/82)
i just got a flier from Touchstone Software, touting a thing called "mimix" that allows transfers back and forth between cp/m and unix, etc.; anybody have experience with this product to share?? thanks, ernie harkins
UCBARPA.dag@Ucb-C70 (12/05/82)
From: UCBARPA.dag at Ucb-C70 (David Allen Gewirtz) Received: from UCBARPA.BERKELEY.ARPA by UCBVAX.BERKELEY.ARPA (3.227 [10/22/82]) id A01468; 5-Dec-82 00:49:44-PST (Sun) To: hplabs!hao!cires!harkins at Ucb-C70, info-micro at BRL Via: Ucb-C70; 5 Dec 82 3:55-EST Via: Brl; 5 Dec 82 4:02-EST Via: Brl-Bmd; 5 Dec 82 4:15-EST Via: Brl; 5 Dec 82 2:29-PST I saw the product up at COMDEX. Interesting. The thing consists of a Z80 emulator running (at this point) on an altos XENIX machine. It has a sort of kludgy menu that allows file transfers between CP/M floppies and the altos hard disk. When in "CP/M Mode" there is no way to do anything to XENIX until exiting the emulator and completely returning to XENIX. The thing runs rather slowly, with about a ten times speed reduction, but I had supercalc up on it and it actually worked. It was interesting and rather curious. David PS: They also claim to have plug in "personality" boards with a Z80 and 64K each for up to four users, so the simulation is unecessary.
helge (12/05/82)
I have a utility running under unix to read and write cp/m floppies (/dev/floppy or any file with the structure of a cp/m 8" sssd floppy). It includes commands like dir, ren, era, copyin & copyout. Drop me a line if you are interested. -helge