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- From: opalka@atom.enet.dec.com (Bill Opalka)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Re: Z-System
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.190811.24410@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:08:11 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.041019.15657@wyvern.twuug.com>
- Sender: usenet@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: opalka@atom.enet.dec.com (Bill Opalka)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- Lines: 29
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- >>Are there any of you CP/M types out there that still don't know
- >>or use the Z-System? Since 1988, NZCOM and Z3PLUS have left
- >>old 2.2 and 3.0 systems for dead! And you can still get them!
-
- Yes, I for one don't use Z-System for a couple of reasons. First,
- it takes away memory from an already memory starved system. Second,
- when it comes to my CPM based systems I'm cheap and I don't want to
- spend any more money on them. Finally, I have Z3Plus but my
- CPM+ board on my Heath system went south so I'm back to using plain vanilla
- CPM V2.2. Maybe when I get the CPM+ board back in operation, I'll run
- Z3Plus but until then I can't see investing in any more Z-System stuff.
- Now don't get me wrong, when I used Z3Plus, I was very please with it.
- It had some nice functions that I didn't find in any other operation system,
- and the memory requirement on a Z3Plus system weren't outrageous.
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- Unfortunately, I'm being dragged into the PC world. I've bought some neat
- pieces of software and I think knowing the PC world is not a bad idea.
- Like it or not, we may all have some sort of PC system sitting in our
- houses. I still use my Z80 systems from time to time. My son
- enjoys banging on the keyboard and I still write some programs using
- MODULA-2 but as far as spending any more money on my old system, I'm
- pretty hard pressed to do so.
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- Regards,
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- /Bill
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