Date   : Thu, 27 Dec 1990 19:29:39 GMT
From   : zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!cc.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!slsw2@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Subject: DisplayWriter and CP/M 86

In article <1990Dec24.162439.6459@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, vspicer@ccu.umanitoba.ca
writes:
> Also of course now we need software. Does anyone out there have anything
> for CP/M 86 formatted to a DisplayWriter readable 8" disk.

I think that any old 8" SSSD CP/M disk will be readable by the thing.

> The stuff of
> interest would be:
>   some sort of database (dbase 2?)
>   some sort of spreadsheet (supercalc?)
>   programming languages (mbasic, pl/1, fortran, cbasic, pascal)
>   communications program to go with serial board
>  
> maybe i'm working on the silly assumption that such stuff actually made
> it to CP/M 86, but it seems to be a pretty good, fast OS. also, does
> anyone have some technical specs on the DisplayWriter? We didn't get any
> manuals with it.

I know that spreadsheets, programming languages, and communications
programs made it to CP/M-86. I've seen (but, alas, don't have) Microsoft's
MultiPlan, a C compiler or two, and I've got KERMIT for my Rainbow. The
old Turbo Pascal manual (you know, version 3.01A and before; when it was
good) has a section on CP/M-86. I wouldn't be surprised if you could still
get CP/M-86 Turbo from Borland; it was only a few years ago that I ordered
8" CP/M-80 Turbo from them.

Glad to hear you've got it running.
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