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- From: eru@tnso04.tele.nokia.fi (Erkki Ruohtula)
- Subject: Re: CP/M operating sys for intel machines?
- In-Reply-To: lenin@wam.umd.edu's message of Fri, 24 Jul 1992 15:03:44 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:14:40 GMT
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- 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?
- thanks.
-
- There was a system called CP/M-86, which in the beginning of PC:s
- looked like a viable competitor to MS-DOS, and was supplied with many
- vendors of 8088 and 8086 machines as an alternative. Long time ago
- I purchased a copy from a surplus sale, and got it to run on my PC/XT
- clone, except that it did not seem to understand anything about its hard
- disk (too old system version?). Later I got an AT-clone, and there attempts
- to boot CP/M-86 just hung up the machine. Not any loss, since I did not have
- any interesting software to run on it (CP/M-80 software naturally does not
- run on CP/M-86). I don't know if there has been CP/M-86 versions that
- do run on AT's, but if there is, such a version might run on your 386sx
- system.
-
- I presume CP/M-86 gradually evolved into the MS-DOS-compatible
- operating system DR-DOS that Digital Research sells these days
- successfully (I wonder whether DR-DOS can run any CP/M-86
- software?).
- --
- Erkki Ruohtula / Nokia Telecommunications
- eru@tele.nokia.fi / P.O. Box 33 SF-02601 Espoo, Finland
- (My private opinions, of course.)
-