Date   : Mon, 27 Jul 1992 16:49:22 GMT
From   : micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!wupost!sdd.hp.com!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (CP/M lives!)
Subject: Re: CP/M operating sys for intel machines?

In article <1992Jul24.150344.25605@wam.umd.edu>, lenin@wam.umd.edu (Alberto
Alejandro Perez-Pulido) writes:
> I wanted to know if there is a full cp/m operating system
> that can run on a 386sx machine. I just purchased an extra
> hard drive and have plenty space to repartition my drive
> and try another operating system with a boot manager.
> Does anybody know if there is a cp/m that I can put in a partition
> in my hard disk and can boot from it?
> where could I get it?

The folks that make Uniform, MicroSolutions, make a CP/M emulator that runs
from the DOS file structure. They also have an 8MHz CP/M coprocessor that
the emulation software knows how to fire up; so you can have CP/M software
run on a fast Z80 instead of interpreted slowly by a 386.

An interesting feature of MicroSolutions' emulator is that you can tell it
that anything ending with a specific extension (I use .CPM) is a CP/M
executable and it will automatically detect it from the command line and
fire it over to the coprocessor. In other words, you can type ZSID at the
DOS command line and get ZSID running.

> Lenin@wam.umd.edu                                 

Interesting user name. Ever hear of the band "Trotsky Icepick"?

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu