"Terry Yager" wrote:
>> Sounds like you've been listening to Emmanual Roche too
>> much (IBM clowns!).
> Heh! Just call me the American Luser...
Shouldn't insult yourself (especially if you're handycapped).
>> I've got stacks of 386s/486s & all I ever think about is the
>> potential I can give them by installing OSes on them &
>> perhaps playing with them.
> The ones I used to rescue from the dumpsters and donate
> were always mounted with Calderra OpenDOS v.7.2 (the
> free version, but also the best DOS ever, IMHO).
Didn't the people throwing them away like them.
>> In terms of CP/M-86 v1.1, I think their great, cause you
>> can mess around with DOS programs & port them to
>> CP/M-86. Since it's had some of the newer aspects
>> incorporated into it, by the use of FIDDs (CP/M's version
>> of DOS's TSRs), it's much better I feel.
> I dunno, most of my experience with CP/M-86 was on
> the Victor 9000, and ummm, oh yeah, the Sanyo 555,
> neither one of which is exactly IBM-compatable.
Well yeah, different, but would feel the same. CP/M-86
v1.1 for the IBM PC & XT, is just like CP/M v2.2 on the
8bits (except you have a status bar at the bottom). The
command line is virtually identical, so once it's mastered
it's the same for the 8bit version.
>> Okay, perhaps from an XT perspective, it's a little too
>> modern, cause a gap remains in terms of the use of EGA
>> in CP/M-86. Lots of programs have been made to use VGA
>> & while they exist for XTs, finding one would be tricky.
>> The next issue is speed. Since I've used High Level
>> Languages for writing programs, they have been somewhat
>> slow on even a 386! :-( More use of Arrays would probably
>> fix this.
> I just haven't really taken the time to explore any of
> the "modern" CP/M-86 software yet. (It's on my to-do
> list, tho). As for languages, my weapon-of-choice is
> Assembler. One of these days, I'll get around to
> learning some of the x86 version. (I still have a lot to
> learn about x80 Assembly...I'm working on it tho).
Assembly is great, but can be a challenge for older IBMs like
my 386. Generally depends on the application, usually demos
are the main slow-down culprit. I'm using a 386 which is on
the slower end of the scale (16Mhz), on a 33Mhz or 40Mhz
386DX it'd be slightly different story.
Cheers,
CP/M User.