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[f-cpu] Re: OFF: CP/M



Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ben Franchuk wrote:
> 
> > Juergen Goeritz wrote:
> > > But they all run under Linux! if you really want to live
> > > that 'dusty old CD' stuff you have to get the source code
> > > anyway because it's the only way!
> >
> > No a lot of the old computers the SOURCE has been lost and
> > running a emulator for a machine that last ran in the 1980's ...
> > 1970's ... 1960's and even the 1950's is the only way for people
> > to have a feel for what the old machines where like.
> 
> Still got one of the 'old ones' - handcrafted Z80 CP/M machine.
> But I don't know of any emulator still available for these...

Try here. http://www.cpm.z80.de/
 
> Maybe we need some new backup tools where the required hardware
> functionality is described and included in the backup file?
> No more operating systems, just a VHDL to hardware synthesizer.
> Self-extracting hardware for the universal logic array PCBs
> of the future. Every software runs on its own dedicated hardware.
> Forget about PCs! :-)

A 150 MHZ PC will run CP/M faster than a 2MHZ 8080. Why not just
design the F-cpu that way - the wave of the future today.
Ben.
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Now with schematics.
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