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From: justin@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: PC Mags (was: The New Chips)
Message-ID: <122600003@inmet>
Date: 24 Feb 88 21:08:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet.UUCP!justin    Feb 24 16:08:00 1988


/* Written 10:43 pm  Feb 16, 1988 by wtm@neoucom.UUCP in inmet:comp.misc */
Yes, I do remember.  CP/M-86 would run on 8088s.  In Wordstar, one
only need change one byte in the PSP to get the CP/M-86 version of
ws3.2 to run under MS-DOS 1.0.  It's been about four years, so I
forget exactly what it was that one changed.  I suppose if you get
a copy of the book "Underground Wordstar" it has the patch listed.
We did this on a DEC Rainbow.

--Bill
/* End of text from inmet:comp.misc */

Excuse me, we seem to have serious confusion here. As I recall, the original
poster said that one only need change one byte from the *CP/M* version to
get the MS-DOS version. If he meant CP/M-*86*, then he should have said so.
That was, I assume, what the comment about different opcodes was referring
to.
(Some of us remember when plain old CP/M was the only real operating system
for micros, and don't automatically assume that it refers to CP/M-86).

						-- Justin du Coeur