On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 10:46 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote:
> > > 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. > > > On other CP/M machines with less than optimal 80x25 displays, there was usually a virtual 80 column terminal with a way of paging the physical display window around that so that you could use 80 column programs without too much trouble. I imagine the same could be accomplished with the M100, but it might be a bit gnarly due to the height more than the width.
