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Re: /etc/disktab on vax



On 07/03/2012 09:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Ideally the biggest problem for the Z80 is that it needed a command
> processor who understood it. CP/M was written for the 8080. Running it
> on the Z80 only made use of the original 8080 instructions. About the
> time Ciarcia was promoting the Z180, someone announced a replacement
> command processor who'd make use of the entire instruction set.

  ZCPR (and the Zsystem).  I ran ZCPR3 for years when my main desktop
system was a Z80 machine.  I loved it...still do, although I don't run
it much anymore.  It really was very good!

              -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA




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