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- 4-Feb-83 13:16:36-EST,00000001503;000000000001
- Date: 4 Feb 1983 1316-EST
- From: Sy.WBC3 at CU20B (Bill Catchings)
- Subject: [Nick Bush <OC.SITGO at CU20C>: KERMIT-80 on Z-100's]
- To: Sy.FdC
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- Here is the letter from Stevens.
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- -Bill
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- Date: 31 Jan 1983 1132-EST
- From: Nick Bush <OC.SITGO at CU20C>
- Subject: KERMIT-80 on Z-100's
- To: SY.WBC3 at CU20B
-
- The changes I made to make KERMIT-80 run on the Zenith Z-100 under CP/M-85
- were very minor. The Z-100 works identically to the Heath H-89 except
- for the location of the modem port, and the status bits. The required
- definitions are:
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- MNPORT EQU 0ECH
- MNPRTST EQU 0EDH
- OUTPUT EQU 001H ; Bit is off when output is busy, on when done
- ; (same as H-89, just different bit)
- INPUT EQU 002H ; Bit is on when input available (same as H-89)
-
- With these changes, KERMIT-80 runs quite nicely under CP/M-85.
-
- The other operating system for the Z-100 (ZDOS), claims to be able to run
- CP/M .COM files, but I haven't found any method of getting one onto a
- ZDOS format floppy. From the documentation, and from playing around with
- the Z-100 and the IBM PC that we have as demo's, most programs that run
- on the IBM seem to run correctly on the Z-100 under ZDOS, so I assume that
- the IBM PC version of KERMIT would work on the Z-100 with only minor mods.
- (Is the IBM PC version working yet? If so, could we get a copy to try?)
-
- I'll send over what documentation we have on KERMIT-10 as soon as possible.
-
-
- Nick Bush
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