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From: cs472226@umbc5.umbc.edu (David Wood (CS472226))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Winging CP/M on a GS
Summary: Is CP/M hard without a card?
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Date: 8 May 89 12:17:10 GMT
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   My mother is now working at her school (preschool and primary
program) with a program which helps her fill out education reports.
I figured if she could run it at home on the GS, she'd finally be
coerced into learning how to use the machine at home so she wouldn't
have to keep bothering me for newsletters, pictures, etc.
   Alas, the program is CP/M, and I know nothing about it.
   However, I can imagine.
   5 1/4" disks, likely standard format (She's working on ][+s!) and the
GS has, among other things, FST capability so it could read virtually
anything it's programmed for (so let's program it already!).
   Is it possible to emulate CP/M on a GS? Can it read CP/M disks? How
hard would it be to write a CP/M FST (assuming you knew how)?

                                                    -David Wood
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