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From: ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA
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Subject: Re:  CP/M-86 and Concurrent CP/M-86 for Zenith Z-100
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Date: Sat, 17-Dec-83 12:45:07 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 17 12:45:07 1983
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From:  Mike Ciaraldi <ciaraldi@Rochester.ARPA>

The generic version of CCPM I used at Taylor was version 2.0.
For comparison, the one that DRI sells already configured for
the IBM PC is based on version 1.x.
I am pretty sure (just about certain) that the
Zenith CCPM will also be based on version 2, not
on the version 3 that J. Pournelle mentions.

The main features of CCPM 2 vs. 1 are:
     Operating system is smaller.
     Programs with >64K code now load properly, i.e. you
         do not have to use the "R" command that comes with the
         DRI C compiler to get them to run.

Since Zenith supports MS-DOS as ZDOS, I presume they will eventually
release a CCPM that runs MS-DOS programs, but not in the initial
release. If the DRI IBM version is out in February, I would guess
the generic version 3 would be available to other vendors around then
or some time after.

More news as it becomes available....

Mike Ciaraldi
ciaraldi@rochester