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From: bandy@lll-lcc.UUcp (Andrew Scott Beals)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: "Misusing" Z80 registers - CP/M-80 is an ->8080<- "operating system"
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Date: Thu, 19-Jun-86 01:19:42 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 19 01:19:42 1986
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ucdavis!clover!hildum@ucb-vax.ARPA (Eric Hildum) writes:
>[if you assume that your BIOS saves the z80-specific registers, certain
> programs that expect a z80 (turbo pascal for example) will die]

CP/M(-80) is an operating system for >>8080<< microcomputers.  If your
BIOS or firmware uses the z80 registers without saving them, then it
is WRONG BUGGY and ERRONOUS.  DEC, unfortunately, isn't the only
vendor that practices this bit of anti-social behaviour.
	andy
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Andy Beals
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