Date   : Sat, 09 Jan 1993 17:25:34 GMT
From   : pa.dec.com!nntpd2.cxo.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!ryn.mro4.dec.com!armory.enet.dec.com!chungh@decuac.dec.com (Henry Chung)
Subject: Anyone familiar with Micro 5 Turbo 1000 system running MP/M ?

Hi,
  Is anyone familiar with  Micro 5 Turbo system ?  Does the company
still exist today ?  Since I am not very CP/M literate, maybe some of
you CP/M gurus can help me out.
One of my friends' company has a Micro 5 System running an acounting
program (written in MBASIC). The system is a multi-user system and 
has 24 serial ports on the back.  Since the system is very old, he
is afraid the system may die someday and lose all of his data.
He would like to replace the machine with a standard 386 compatiable PC
The Questions that I have are: 

1) Can I replace the MP/M with another multi-user operating system
   such as DR. DOS mult-user version or DesQview running on top of 
   regular DOS ?
2) Will the accounting program run on DOS ?  (I do have the
   source code if I need to make minor modification to the program.)

Thank you very much.  
/Henry