crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein) (05/24/90)
In-Reply-To: message from lyle@netcom.UUCP Well, I'd mail this reply, Lyle, but it won't go. CP/M cards are availible from a variety of sources, including AE. Microsoft made the first Apple II CP/M card, many years ago. CP/M is used far less often than even DOS 3.2.1 (I think), but because of CP/M's popularity when the Apple II premired, there is a good supply of obscure Apple II CP/M software. Yea, you can use CP/M on a IIgs, and many HDs support it. The cards with CP/M and a 2MHz Z80B are fairly cheap these days. UUCP: crash!pro-harvest!crew ProLine: crew@pro-harvest ARPA: crash!pro-harvest!crew@nosc.mil INET: crew@pro-harvest.cts.com BITNET: crew%pro-harvest.cts.com Gosh, I finally figured out how to edit my .SIGNATURE file, and I can't think of much to say. Send me questions, comments, and anything else I might find interesting.
rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt) (05/31/90)
crew@pro-harvest.cts.com (Chris Wicklein) writes: | In-Reply-To: message from lyle@netcom.UUCP | | CP/M cards are availible | from a variety of sources, including AE. Microsoft made the first Apple II | CP/M card, many years ago. PCPI also made a 4MHz and a 6MHz Z80 CP/M card. If I'm not mistaken, Advanced Logic Systems and Digital Research got together and ALS released an Apple CP/M card capable of running CPM 3.0. There are even more sources than that. | CP/M is used far less often than even DOS 3.2.1 (I think), You think wrong. BDS C just reached v6.0, and ZCPR 3.4 is out and for sale. (ZCPR is a partial CP/M replacement which is just incredible). F83 (the Forth-83 compiler from No Visible Support Software) is available for many platforms and universally admired (and criticized :-) ZBASIC is also available for CP/M (and almost everything else :-) There was some people who came out with a 10Mhz Applicard-like CP/M card. Perhaps most indicative of current CP/M software, is UUCP 2.1 and Daisy. UUCP is a uucp/cico implementation (don't argue - pallio is a CP/M site!) and Daisy is a FidoNet bbs for the Apple II. | but because of CP/M's popularity when the Apple II premired, there is | a good supply of obscure Apple II CP/M software. OBSCURE? Puhleez.. | Yea, you can use CP/M on a | IIgs, and many HDs support it. The cards with CP/M and a 2MHz Z80B are fairly | cheap these days. Be careful - "CP/M support" usually means only Microsoft Z80 support. [david] SIGH. Enough ranting and raving, eh? -- ! InterNet: madnix!rat@cs.wisc.edu ! David Douthitt ! UUCP: ...uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!rat ! Madison, Wisconsin ! {decvax!att}! ! === Apple II Forever === ! Thimpk before you post...! ! The Stainless Steel Rat