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- Msg #8381 posted 12/19/87 at 10:46 am by Jim Thale
- To: Rich Jacobson About: stuff & msg (10 lines)
-
- Hi there! Politics is heating up and so was my system 'til the Hard
- disk crashed. Belated thanks for the lecture on the value of Backing-
- up early-and-often. The folks at CompuPro were incredibly helpful with
- help requests from a 'lowly CP/M user'. Reformatting and new Z-system
- & BYE510 are all in the works now that I can start from scratch....
-
- Is NZCOM a salable product yet? Might be worthwhile, so many things don't
- work with BG and datestamper installed. Trading off RCP for BG sounds good.
- Kevin Parker promises a Z280 S-100 CPU with half-to-two Meg. in the first
- quarter of '88, gotta work on the Z80DOS/ZRDOS crowd for multitasking
- support, thanks bye j.
-
- Msg #8395 posted 12/21/87 at 6:45 am by Richard Jacobson
- To: ALL USERS About: NZCOM (14 lines)
-
- Have had a number of inquiries about NZCOM, the upcoming replacement
- for auto-install ZCPR3/3. It should be out in first quarter of '88.
- I have used it in beta form and it is superb. Superb is too mundane
- a word. It makes obsolete all manual installs and will be the
- Z-System of choice for all users. Why? Taking almost no more space
- than an optimized manual install, it will permit you to resize your
- system on the fly, from the command line, through an alias. No more
- lock-in as far as TPA goes. If you need more room for a particular
- application, just access it via an alias that removes some of the
- system segments and associated buffers, increasing TPA. The alias
- can have an exit command that puts all the segments and buffers back.
- In short, maximum control of the operating system will be yours.
- Once again, nothing beats working in a mature operating system
- environment.
-
- Msg #8398 posted 12/21/87 at 5:13 pm by Steve Cohen
- To: Richard Jacobson About: NZCOM (2 lines)
-
- ALL users? Even us XBIOS users? PULLEEZE don't tell me I need to switch
- again?
-
- Msg #8427 posted 12/25/87 at 6:49 pm by Steve Cohen
- To: Richard Jacobson About: NZCOM (7 lines)
-
- Malcom said that XBIOS lacks one important feature of NZCOM
- which he plans to add in the next version. Actually, it owuld
- be nice if the two could be kept as compatible as possible.
- NZCOM sounds so nice it will probably sweep the vanilla Z-world
- and it would be a drag if things started diverging at this point.
- NZCOM might even tempt me to put it on my Kaypro, which in terms
- of anything new, has been atrophied in time since I got the SB180.
-
- Msg #8441 posted 12/27/87 at 7:10 am by Richard Jacobson
- To: Steve Cohen About: NZCOM (7 lines)
-
- Yes, NZCOM allows dynamic modification of system size. As I
- understand, what Malcom plans will cover that in the next release
- of XBIOS. Compatibility is not and never has been an issue.
- What you really mean to refer to is the question of whether all
- the features of NZCOM will exist in XBIOS. The answer is obviously
- yes, in terms of the only feature that counts - dynamic resizing of
- system.
-
- Msg #8411 posted 12/23/87 at 3:53 am by Fred Haines
- To: Steve Cohen About: NZCOM and XBIOS (18 lines)
-
- Why not both NZCOM and XBIOS? Now that Z system has picked up on the
- CONIX idea of a dynamically readjustable system/tpa balance, the next
- thing will be to look at the XBIOS idea of using banked memory for the
- system. If the BIOS can reside in banked memory, why not the rest of
- the system as well? With XBIOS we're already warm booting from banked
- memory, and BGii keeps its command line history processor over there
- until it reloads on warm boot. Why shouldn't almost all of banked
- memory be used for the system? I gather that the idea of the "hyperspace"
- Z system for the Deep Thought 42 does something of the kind. Whichever
- way this goes, I have the feeling that what Rich calls a "mature
- operating system" is going to go on maturing and that we'll be
- regenerating our systems a few more times before we all switch over to
- the Z280.
-
- Anybody who is particularly interested in the OS Scott Moore is
- developing for Zedux can contact him on Glendale Littera RCPM/QBBS at
- 818/956-6164. You can also call him voice at his office, but I seem to have
- misplaced the number. He posted it in a recent message on Littera
- though, and you'll easily find it there.
-
- Msg #8423 posted 12/25/87 at 6:33 pm by Steve Cohen
- To: Fred Haines About: NZCOM and XBIOS (6 lines)
-
- EXACTLY. When Richard said "mature operating system", plenty of
- Humphs went through my head.
-
- Amazing, isn't it, that in our "dead" OS, such improvements are
- not only contemplated but cranked out. Whereas Misbegotten-DOS
- has 384K of addressable memory hardwired for system uses
- and they complain about lack of memory.
-