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- From: c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK (Christopher Currie)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: TRS80 and MS-DOS
- Message-ID: <1856.9211041111@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 4 Nov 92 11:11:30 GMT
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- >Date: Mon, 2 Nov 92 19:47:41 EST
- >From: eudoh@st6000.sct.edu (Etop Udoh)
- >Subject: TRS-80 to MSDOS....
- >Message-ID: <9211030047.AA19081@st6000.sct.edu>
- >
- >hi,
- >
- > As far as I know, the Model 4/4D/4P will run CP/M without any other
- >modifications,
-
- Yes, it will.
-
- > as opposed to at least the Model III which I'm aware of
- >which requires a hardware board....forgot who makes it....
-
- There were boards made by Memory Merchant (Shuffleboard), Holmes,
- and Omikron (the Mapper).
- >
- > Anyway, theres a program/utility called supercross XT or something
- >of that nature which allows you to read and write other operating systems
- >including MSDOS but this runs under the MOdel III operating system and
- >Model 4 Trsdos.....
- >
- >
- There is also PC-CRoss-Zap, which runs under MS-DOS on the PC, and
- is supplied by Hypersoft at:
-
- PO Box 51155, Raleigh, NC 27609 USA
-
- They also make Hypercross which runs on the Model III and allows
- you to read-write, under TRS-80 operating systems, PC and CP/M
- disks.
-
- > For CP/M, there's a customized CP/M called Montezuma Micro
- CP/M
-
- > By the way, this is CP/M 2.2 which is far superior to Radio Shack's
- > CP/M 3.0......and also available (don't know where you can find it these
- >days ) for this CP/M is "Monte's Toolkit" which includes disk formating
- >and reading utilities, including a virtual file utility for moving files
- >between CP/M, TRSDOS, or MSDOS.....
- >
- They also did Monte's Window, a TSR with notepad, calculator,
- calendar, etc.
-
- There are memory-mapped versions of some software, e.g. Wordstar
- 3.3, around for the Model 4.
-
- > current updated stuff available for this defunct line of computers are:
- >
- ... goodies deleted...
-
- > external drive modification using the 50 pin rear connector
-
- You shouldn't need a mod for the Model III, which is built to take
- two internal and two external drives. It's the Model 4P that has
- to be modified to take more than two drives.
-
- Christopher Currie
-
- c.currie@clus1.ulcc.ac.uk
-