CP/M 1.3 memory requirement

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Nov 3 23:21:47 2000

On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, ajp166 wrote:

> From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
>
>
> >Now Allison, he just proved the point that ZCPR does not increase the
> >bulk of CP/M, whereas Win3.1 does. Therefore, ZCPM is better!
>
>
> Stull no arguement, just not the question at hand. DOS like CP/M
> can have any number of user interfaces, size for the moment is
> unimportant
> as it GUI vs Command line.
>
> You'd like the version I did for laughs that looked a lot like RSTS
> running
> the BASIC interface rather than DCL. Yes, I mean the user enviornment is
> inside basic and the command line would be BASIC. I used LLL BASIC
> to do it as its available as source and all. So what if CCP {or ZCPR}
> is nominally 2k, I changed the load point in the BIOS and allowed 8k for
> that.
>
> Is the user interface different? Yes. Is it CP/M, still? Yes.
 
Nifty, Allison!
                                                 - don
Received on Fri Nov 03 2000 - 23:21:47 GMT