Mark Tapley said:
> As usual, my favorite is the DEC Rainbow. Z-80 for CP/M, 8088 for CP/M
> 86-80, both available via anonymous update from ftp.update.uu.se, and you
> can even run (early) MS-DOS,
I gave up on teh Rainbow because it was not good enough as either a
CP/M or MS-DOS box. The IOBYTE didn't work from the Z80, for instance.
I kept running across MS-DOS software that needed PC compatibility.
The COMMAND LINE version of Turbo C V1.2 made ROM BIOS calls. I had to trade
with a friend who had purchased 1.0.
My favorite was the DECmate II with the APU card. The IOBYTE worked, it's
the only machine I've used with an intelligent hard disk partitioning
scheme [1], and the terminal emulation was much faster than either the
Rainbow or the PRO 350.
[1] There was a simple filesystem managed by the 8051 that ran the hard disk.
Creating a partition involved telling the 8051 to create the file. Mounting
a partition involved telling the 8051 to open a file and associated it with
a given drive number.
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Roger Ivie
ivie_at_cc.usu.edu
Received on Sun Oct 27 2002 - 20:36:32 GMT