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From: dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Wordstar 4 minimum memory usage.
Message-ID: <415@wrs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 13:49:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: wrs.415
Posted: Thu Oct 15 13:49:09 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Oct-87 02:04:15 EDT
References: <1833@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: dg@wrs.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Organization: Wind River Systems, Emeryville, CA
Lines: 33
Keywords: what, me worry?

In article <1833@aramis.rutgers.edu> knutsen@aramis.rutgers.edu (Mark Knutsen) writes:
>	I got the MicroPro offer for WordStar 4.0 in the mail the
>other day; and I must say, for $89 I will seriously consider.  My CP/M
>machine is an ATR-8000 (anyone ever hear of THAT?), which normally
>functions as a smart drive/modem/printer interface for my Atari 800XL.
>It has 64K, so I'm wondering if WordStar will fit.  I've got CP/M ver.
>2.2 (same as CP/M 80?  I dunno).  Can anyone answer the size question
>based on this admittedly limited system info?

If you've got 64K (less overhead for BIOS / BDOS == about 6-8K) leaving
about 56 - 58K TPA, then a CP/M version of WS will fit. Just make sure that
it is definitely a CP/M 2.2 Version, and not something that runs under
MS DOS, check with the place you get it from: they can tell you. You will
find that on a 64K system ANY CP/M 2.2 software will run, as 64K is as
much as you can use in a CP/M 2.2 system - CP/M 3.0 supports bank switching,
but 2.2 does not, so everything MUST fit in 64K.

CP/M 2.2 is CP/M 80. The 2.2 is the version number, the other ones out
there are CP/M 1.4 (largely replaced by 2.2) and CP/M 3.0 (aka CP/M PLUS).
The 80 refers to the fact that it runs on the Intel 8080 (ugh) or more
likely the Zilog Z80. There exists a CP/M 86 for 8086 machines, and CP/M 68K
for 68000 systems as well.
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