CPM-8000 running

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Sep 25 12:51:00 2002

Hi
 Chris Groessler and I have been working with the
CPM-8000 images that we found on the unofficial
CPM page, along with manuals and such found elsewhere.
 Last night, I was able to get the CPM-8000 prompt
and execute both commands that I tried ( DIR and USER ).
There are still some minor issues but things should be
moving right along ( why can't programmers realize
that initializing variables is an important part of any
program? ).
 I want to give thanks to Hans, without the hardware
manual he scanned, I wouldn't have been able to figure
out the address decoder PROM in my Olivetti M20 and
find out how to bring my machine up to 256K of RAM
( needed by CPM-8000 ).
 We still have some work to do ( building up the
disk with all of the files ) but it looks like a
down hill trip from here.
Later
Dwight

 
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