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Subject: Re: ZCPR.
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.154428.46965@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 21:44:28 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.192505.14099@wpi.WPI.EDU>
    ear@wpi.WPI.EDU (Eric A Rasmussen) writes:
| Are you saying that ZCPR will ONLY work on a Kaypro with a hard disk, or is it
| capable of running on non-Kaypro, non-hard disk systems? (Such as a DEC
| Rainbow)

While running ZCPR on a Rainbow is quite nice, it's probably not that good
an idea. The Rainbow is primarily a CP/M-86 machine with a Z80 sidecar; ZCPR
only knows how to run Z80 programs, so you have to be willing to limit 
yourself to those if you want to run it on your Rainbow. I gave up on that
because the I/O byte didn't seem to work correctly; I couldn't get, e.g.,
generic CP/M Kermit running on the Z80.

However, it does make a fairly nice setup; the Rainbow has a huge TPA
because the operating system runs on the 8086 and therefore doesn't show
up in the Z80's memory space.

Caveat: I was running ZCPR 1.something or other that I had severely hacked
over. I don't know about running ZCPR 3 on the Rainbow.
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