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



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.

But why you still want CP/M? Just because the program
can't be adapted/recompiled to/for nowadays hardware.
That brings us back to the open source idea...
(hmh, but why do you want to recompile at all?)
... OR to a new design that is optimzed for emulation of
all kind of today's microprocessors. Maybe it's really
time for the motto 'give every program its own processor'
like in the begining (e.g. with CP/M). That may simplify
everything for the future... ;-)

JG

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