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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: z80-cpm boards for IBM-PCs
Message-ID: <257@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 16:49:41 GMT
References: <8802190016.AA01488@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <7216@sol.ARPA>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <7216@sol.ARPA> ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi) writes:
|In article <8802190016.AA01488@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> JAJZ801@CALSTATE.BITNET (JEFFREY SICHERMAN - CALSTATE LONG BEACH) writes:
|>
|>  I would be interested in anybody's experiences and recommendations for
|>addin boards for IBM-PCs that run CPM and are based on the z80 processor.
|BUT, I have used the program Z80MU, which is a free Z-80+CP/M 
|emulator done entirely in software, and available wherever good
|public domain and shareware programs are.
|It is not as fast as a real Z-80, but it is not bad.
|
|Advantages:  Low cost (i.e. $00.00), access to all DOS facilities
|(subdirectories, printers,  and so on) as well as all CP/M commands,
|and support for large programs (a 60K Transient Program Area).
|The authors estimate it runs at about the speed of
|a 1MHz Z-80 on a standard 4.77 MHz IBM PC>
|
	Unfortunately, Z80MU does not run the world's best Z80
assembler!!  There ia apparently a bug in the implementation of a rarely
used Z80 instruction that causes Z80ASM to bomb.

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