Date   : Thu, 01 Aug 1985 08:13:00 PDT
From   : nep.pgelhausen@AMES-VMSB.ARPA
Subject: --- Apple to IBM ---

Sorry, as far as I know, Apple runs CP/M-80 (for a Z80, the eight-bit
"original" CP/M).  IBM runs CP/M-86, the sixteen-bit version.  I know
that CP/M was intended to create a "standard" such that the same program
will run on many different machines.  The catch is that CP/M-80 and
CP/M-86 are two DIFFERENT operating systems (only the names (and the
user interface) appear similar).  To get the same program to run on
two machines w/ direct transfer they both have to have the same CPU
(both the Osborne and the Kaypro have a Z80 (I think) and run the
eight-bit CP/M).  If you have the source code for whatever program
you want to transfer, in a high-level language, you can re-compile
on the IBM.  NOTE: Z80 assembler code is NOT suitable for compilation
on the IBM.  You need a language like C, Pascal, FORTRAN, or even 
BASIC.  Does this answer your question?
                       -Richard Hartman
                       max.hartman@ames-vmsb