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[Liam Proven]

On 28 September 2010 01:20, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:01 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 26 September 2010 22:01, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > <sniffs> I still pine for cp/m and would dearly like to see how it would
>> > run re-compiled on a 64bit machine with 4 gigs of memory. It would
>> > mortally scream, huh?! :) Ric
>>
>> Well, you could run FreeDOS. It comes with OpenGEM, which is based on
>> DR's original code, including GSX from GEM.
>> http://www.freedos.org/
>
> Oh no I meant cp/m. I have a copy of DrDOS that I used to flash my bios
> with. Nifty to see that run. 16 bit and all. But 8 bit cp/m or cp/m-86
> would really be a treat to see running on a modern processor with 2 gigs
> of ram. Just for ducks. :) Ric

Ah, well, yes, true.

The last variant of CP/M that I know of that's still alive, kinda
sortof, is Real/32 from IMS.

http://www.imsltd.com/

It's not free, though.

It's an enhanced version of Concurrent DOS, which was an enhanced
version of Concurrent CP/M (both of which I used to use in the 1980s).
CCP/M was an enhanced CP/M-86.

CDOS was brilliant, actually. Highly compatible, multitasked like a
dream on a 386. Loads of full MS-DOS text-mode apps - 4 on the
console, and umpteen on dumb serial terminals. Brilliant bit of
software.

I doubt they sell much of it today, though. Frankly, if some nutter
came to me now with a need for a multitasking DOS box, I'd give them
Ubuntu with a bunch of DOSEmu instances. That seems to work pretty
well. I run MS Word 6 under it - it's really rather nice.


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