Date   : Sun, 19 Jan 1992 17:26:47 GMT
From   : mcsun!news.funet.fi!sunic!dkuug!imada!ravn@uunet.uu.net (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen)
Subject: Re: CDos & CCpm-86

messmer@lut.fi (Willi Messmer) writes:

>I just bought a couple of RC Partner 186 systems. They run CCPM-86 3.1 and
>CDOS 4.1 and uses IBM AT and some cpm-86 floppy format.

>Is the AT floppy & cpm-86 formats a general pheomenon for CPM-86 machines
or is it like with CPM-80, everyone has it own ?

I think that the CP/M-86 format is a 5 1/4 " version of the 8" format
used with their Piccolo machines (Z80).  Stick to the AT format because
*nobody* can read the CP/M format.  (Hallmark of RegneCentralen -- we
are compatible with *noone*)


>Has DR released newer version of these op-systems ?

Hard to tell.  You might want to ask RegneCentralen before they vanish,
as they are on the net.  I got a very nice treatment by writing to
"postmaster@rci.dk", and you might as well get the latest editions of
whatever they have left.


>So...i'm looking for the GEM and some CPM86,CCPM86 and CDOS software
>the general and some special for the RC Partner. 

I think you are out of luck.  Not much has been written and it is hard
to get.  Generic software is a little easier -- try on simtel20.

BTW:  Happy to hear that the machine is still in use.  It is very nice
to work with, especially with the screenscroll, but it is not
IBM-compatible. 

Good luck and happy hacking
-- 
Thorbj{\o}rn     ! "The most intelligent thing [a computer] is capable of
   Ravn Andersen !  doing without help of its programmers is to go on 
                 !  strike when required to work without air conditioning.
ravn@imada.ou.dk !                  Petr Beckmann, "A history of PI", 1971