Date   : Fri, 20 Jul 1990 15:16:00 GMT
From   : sdd.hp.com!apollo!gaz@ucsd.edu (Gary Zaidenweber)
Subject: Atari ST CP/M emulator (was 'Re: Appletalk on the TT')

From article <RALPH.90Jul16121345@cresus.laas.fr>, by ralph@laas.fr (Ralph
P. Sobek):
> Wouldn't it be easier to emulate CP/M 68000?  Such beasts surely exist
> since I threw out our documentation.
> --
> Ralph P. Sobek                      Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
> ralph@laas.fr                                Addresses are ordered by importance.
> ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph          
> If all else fails, try:                                 sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU
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> Reliable software should kill people reliably! -Andy Mickel, Pascal News
#13,78

Of course you're right. In fact, it wouldn't be an emulation at all
but could be a "native" operating system. However, the point of 
emulating CP/M-80 was to allow people who had CP/M machines to 
migrate to the Atari without discarding all of their CP/M-80
software. In fact, the emulator is nearly as fast as my 2.5 MHz
Z80 machine and screen and disk I/O is much faster. Transferring
the software is my only holdup to getting rid of the real CP/M
machine.

As an aside, I worked with Andy Mickel here at Apollo for a couple
of years -- I can see him saying that :-)


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