On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:14 AM, DRogers <wa7...@gmail.com> wrote: > Too slow for Wordstar cp/m? Back in the day, I used an Epson PX-8 with dual > disk drives and a 128K RAM pack -- all of which I still have. It ran a ROM > based Wordstar. If you had a 4 page document and you made a small change in > the middle of it, you could hit return then go fix lunch, eat it at a > leisurely rate, then fix and drink a cup of coffee and MAYBE it would be > finished thinking through the change. And I am exaggerating only very > slightly. > > It seems a little better on my NEC PC-8500, but I have never done any long > documents on it. > > David
My only experience of CP/M is with the WordStar on the 8500. So maybe I'm spoiled :-) Anyway, for those interested there is a project to port CP/M to the Model 100 w/ 64K all-RAM hardware. MTCPM. I host a mailing list, subversion server for it. Steve Adolph created the necessary hardware. Ken and I created external disk service software. Phil Avery has done most of the actual CP/M porting work so far. http://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=MTCPM More devs with time to work on the project are always welcome. -- John.
