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From: MMOON.ES@PARC-MAXC.ARPA@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Compupro 8088/85 S-100 Board
Message-ID: <12333@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Oct-83 11:27:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.12333
Posted: Mon Oct  3 11:27:00 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 08:18:29 EDT
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I am considering taking the plunge into the "16" bit world by trading
in my old reliable Cromemco ZPU for the 8088/85 board from Compupro.
I sprung for the manual at Priority 1 & found out the initial
conversion will cause no real shock waves from the hardware
standpoint.

The 8085 will become the main processor in the short run, meaning I
have to give up my ZCPR2 implementation.  For long term, am I tied to
the Compupro and/or G&G CP/M-86 or MP/M-816 software?  My disk
controller is a Morrow DJ2DIO which is out of production, I believe,
but has been quite reliable.  I don't want to spring for a Disk-1
while I have a perfectly good floppy controller, but this poses some
obvious problems with a roll-your-own BIOS for either of the above
OS's.  Anybody been through this before I re-invent the wheel?

Thanks in advance for *any* info.

		-- MMoon.es