Date   : Mon, 25 Apr 1988 16:07:00 PDT
From   : Alan Bomberger <ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA>
Subject: various topics

I have been away for awhile but found some topics worth commenting on in the 
last two montsh traffic.  First CP/M+  I got my generic version from S100 
Systems some years ago and even they were suprized that they had it (I ordered 
from a 1 year old catalog) and I doubt that they have it now.  I wish that DR 
would officially disown CP/M+ so that I could give (note GIVE) away copies of 
the generic software (not that manuals though as they are very thick).  I found
one overwhelming reason to chose CPM+ over Z system which was the large TPA 
possible with CPM+ and the smaller TPA available with Z system.  I was haveing 
trouble and did not want to go smaller.  As a supplier of RSX style code 
(Write-Hand-Man in particular) I found the standard interface for such in CPM+ 
to be a dream come true.  Nonstandard CPM2 systems abound..  I recently 
switched to 3.5 inch disks for an odd reason.  Only 3.5 inch disks fit into a 
standard bank safe deposit box.  That did it for me.  Now I have a bunch of 8 
inch and 96TPI 5 inch drives lying around unused.  As to Mice.  Skip all the 
crap and geta RAW MOUSE.  The output of a raw mouse is easy to read on a 
Parrallel input port and very cheap these days.  (many will say that it aint 
easy but if you want a copy of an article that was just about to be published 
in DDJ before they got raped send a SSEE and a buck or so to "Poor Person 
Software, 3721 Starr King Circle, Palo Alto, CA 94306")  This article describes
how to put a quadrature mouse into your BIOS to supply cursor characters as the
mouse moves.  Works with ALL software and is a small BIOS addition.