Best CP/M machine? -- sorry

From: morrison_at_t-iii.com <(morrison_at_t-iii.com)>
Date: Thu Sep 2 19:38:21 1999

How about the Dimension 68K? CP/M _and_ Apple, TRS-80 and MS-Dos all in one
machine with a separate floppy drive for each.

Neil Morrison



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk [SMTP:ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 5:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: Best CP/M machine? -- sorry
>
> > You recently posted a message which only contained the text from my
> original
> > inquiry -- an editing error, perhaps? If so how about resending your
> reply?
>
> Ooops!!!
>
> Here you are
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> > What was the best CP/M based machine for business? Are applications and
>
> > utilities still obtainable? What about development tools and
> documentation?
> >
> > Your opinions, please.
>
> I am going to leave out all the S100 machines. Not because I don't like
> them - I do. But an S100 machine is really defined by what cards you put
> in it, rather than the box. And thus there are far too many choices to
> reasonably commment on.
>
> OK, so restricting the list to essentially pre-configured machines, and
> remembering that I'm a hardware hacker, the ones I particularly like are :
>
>
> The Epson QX10. It's got up to 256K of bank-switched RAM. It's got an NEC
> 7220 graphics chip and a bitmapped display (on which it supports multiple
> text fonts). It's got the wonderful Epson voice-coil floppy drives.
>
> The DEC Rainbow. A twin-processor machine, Z80 and 8088. You can run
> CP/M-80 programs on the Z80, with 62K (IIRC) of memory. There's an
> optional bitmapped colour card with (yet again) an 7220.
>
> There were 'business' progams (spreadsheets, word processors, etc) for
> both of those. Development tools (at least an assembler) should be
> available somewhere.
>
> -tony
>
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