Date   : Thu, 26 Mar 1987007:41:00-MST
From   : John Science Fiction & Resume Service Shaver <jshaver@apg-5>
Subject: converting a CP/M operation to IBM PC

We are making a transition from an Otrona CPM system to an MSDOS
environment.  We have found two software products useful.  We
purchased MultiMedia, a utility which permits one drive of an MSDOS
system to be configured into one of about 60 diffent systems including
about 20 CPM systems.  (Apple not included).  We also use the public
domain software from SIMTEL20 which permits the Emulation of an 8080
on the MSDOS system.  Not all CPM programs are compatible.  Our
favorite, NewSweep, has sone non-standard calls to bdos and will not
work.  Many do.
  I have mixed emotions about MSDOS, as the CPM world did most of the
things which I required on a daily basis. and as someone else has
said, Anyone can make a computer dance with a meg of memory.  Real
programmers do it in 8 bits.  LONG LIVE CPM.

John