On 25-Mar-2005 17:12 EST, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:04:33 -0500, Steve Litt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim Ray wrote:
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft Windows XP Professional
CPM is the fairest distro. CPM plus Wordstar can do more with a 2Mhz Z80,
64KB of RAM and dual 170KB floppies than any MS or Linux distro.
Yeah, but how available is a 2MHz Z80 64KB Kaypro machine these days? Not
very! Still, get one to a kernel developer and wait a couple of weeks and
I bet they'd get linux running on it. :-)
Believe it or not, you can have your CP/M and Linux too! I have a Heathkit
CP/M emulator written for MS-DOS that runs great under Win4Lin loaded with
Win98 on my Debian box. Anyone want to "pip" some files? It won't read
CP/M floppies though ... And I can't count when was the last time I loaded
a hard-sectored 5.25" 160K floppy.
Oh, and Tanner -- 8080/Z80 is strictly 8-bit. Not even 8-bit Small-C will
compile the 16-bit Linux for it. (sigh) And somewhere I still have that
old Heath-Zenith Z100 S-100-bus dual-processor box in the attic ...
(CP/M, CP/M-86 and MS-DOS 2.1 !!)
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Scott G. Hall
Raleigh, NC, USA
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