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From: cbdougla@uokmax.UUCP (Collin Broadrick Douglas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Winging CP/M on a GS
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Date: 9 May 89 22:53:05 GMT
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Subject: Re: Winging CP/M on a GS
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In article <2006@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> you write:
>
>   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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   You could always get a CP/M card.  Applied Engineering sells them and
   they do work on the GS.  I'm not sure if Apple will ever come out
   with a CP/
   M FST but all that would do is let you read the files under GS/OS.

   My reccomendation would be to buy a CP/M card from Applied Engineering
   so you can run the software on the GS.  By running the software on the GS,
   you could use any extra RAM as a RAM disk to speed things up some.  I
   don't think that the extra speed of the GS will affect CP/M programs
   since the CP/M card has its own processor running independant of the
   GS's processor.  

   Applied Engineering
   P.O. Box 5100, Carrolton, TX 75011
   (214)-241-6060

   The card costs $149 through AE but you can probably get a better deal throug
   mail order.  

   Of course, if you want to you can take the CP/M card out of the II+ and put
   it in the GS.  But then you'd have to carry the card from school to home
   every day.


					Collin Douglas