On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Chris Fezzler <fezz...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I love hooking my Model T device to other devices to see if it works or, > most practically, more abundant and convenient file storage. > > Beyond BASIC, I am not a programmer. So, anyone care to opine in layman's > terms what the C/PM breakthrough means for users? What will we be able to > do with the Model T that we cannot do now? > > It opens the possibility of using CP/M 8080 based software. The thing that interested me when MTCPM was first discussed was various compilers available for CP/M that seemed like they would work. Turbo Pascal, C compilers, maybe Fortran or Cobol. Assemblers and linkers. Some software is only for CP/M -86 or Z80 CP/M . Stuff with any other than 8080 instructions won't work. I don't know if there are any programs that use the 8085-specific instructions. Maybe WordStar could be configured? Don't know if there's a variant that would work 40x8. Probably games or databases. -- John.
