Date   : Tue, 17 Jul 1990 07:00:25 GMT
From   : zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!freja.diku.dk!skinfaxe.diku.dk!jensting@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Jens Tingleff)
Subject: Atari ST CP/M emulator (was 'Re: Appletalk on the TT')

ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes:

>Wouldn't it be easier to emulate CP/M 68000?  Such beasts surely exist
>since I threw out our documentation.

Yes, but who would want to do that ? I bought an ST to get software, 
even though I had a technically superior (and 20 times more expensive, 
originally) CP/M-68k machine.. . The only reasonable thing I can think of,
for the CP/M-68k machine, is to emulate TOS (only the `normal' bits, 
not BIOS..) in order to run compilers etc.

Anyway, CP/M-68k STINKS. It does allow for disk change without reboot, but 
that's about the only improvement in usability over CP/M 2.0. I can't
even write a terminal emulator, since the standard BIOS doesn't have 
status info. for the serial line(s), arrrghh.

       Jens

Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
Snail mail: DIKU Universitetsparken 1 DK2100 KBH O
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