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From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Want GENERIC M2 for Z-100
Message-ID: <14181@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Feb 90 17:47:11 GMT
References: <25DFFB94.706F@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr,20650,cb,9a110,6148605851)
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In article <25DFFB94.706F@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes:
>I am teaching a course this semester which uses Modula-2 as its
>implementation language, and I'd sure like to find a PD M2 system
>for use at home on my old Z-100, which is an almost-but-NOT-quite-clone
>8088 running MS-DOS 2.x

>Any information would be appreciated!

A number of people have already Followed-up with information about the
Fitted Software Tools M2 compiler, but nobody (as of this writing) has
addressed the issue of Z-100 compatibility.  I'm not sure what the
differences between a Z-100 and a PClone are, but I know that I was
able to run FST M2 on my TI Pro (not PC compatible) after first locating
the display output driver routine in the program image and patching in
one of my own for the TI Pro.  This was on V1.1.  I now have V1.3, but
haven't had time to apply the patch to the new version.

The package seems to be good and probably worth registering.  I do not
know enough to evaluate the merits of any M2 compiler. Is anyone out 
there in a position to compare FST M2 with other available M2 packages?

regards, Larry
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