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From: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: CP/M on IIgs
Summary: NOT dead... not yet anyway...
Message-ID: <1360@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 04:41:03 GMT
References: <8604.apple.net.info-apple@pro-harvest>
Reply-To: rat@madnix.UUCP (David Douthitt)
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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?

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