Date   : Mon, 28 Mar 1988 11:52:22 MST
From   : Raymond Carter STEWS-NR-AS 678-3348 <rcarter@wsmr02.ARPA>
Subject: C128

I'd like to put some of the comments about the C128 in perspective
here, if I may.

First, I don't believe anyone ever claimed it was the world's best and
fastest CP/M machine, although I find it quite nice with the 512K
ram disk.  Also, by using the CONF utility it is possible to speed
up system operations by about 35% - puts the effective Z80 rate at
about 2.3 MHZ.

Second, I do claim that it is one of the most versatile computers on the
market.  It runs two of the largest bases of software available - C64,
and CP/M - without any additional investment.

It also does some pretty reasonable graphics.  The builtin software
supports 320 by 200 color graphics.  I have recently seen a package
called BASIC 8 which does really nice 3D 640x200 graphics.

All the sound and graphics capabilities are available from within
CP/M.  I have built a CP/M COMAL graphics package which supports
720x240 graphics on the RGB screen.  Not many other CP/M machines
will do that!

To sum up - it may not be the ultimate CP/M computer, but is an extremely
versatile computer, with MUCH good software available.