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- #: 82351 Sec. 1 - General
- Sb: #81955-#Commodore CP/M
- 08-Mar-84 11:27:33
- Fm: Joel Rubin 70007,576
- To: Sysop David Kozinn 76703,565 (X)
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- In all fairness, it must be said that it is only $60 at discount
- stores, including the co-processor card and distribution disk.
- However, the disk format is not readily available, and software is not
- readily available in it. (although someone just converted modem7, and
- vdo--an Osborne editor in xa1, here, and Nevada Fortran, Cobol, and
- Turbo Pascal are available). It is true that extensive work has to be
- done to use a program like WordStar on it, and, considering the speed
- of the 1541 disk drive (painfully slow) you might not want to. Almost
- any editor or modem program will require 6502 code to run (because
- modem access is not through a Z-80 out instruction, but through 6502
- NMI's, and because cursor addressing is done not through escape
- sequences but through 6502 ROM calls). One more problem is the amount
- of RAM available. It is difficult to use more than 48K of RAM, although
- you might be able to play with bankswitching on the 6510, and access 8K
- more of isolated space. (I think Data-20 does with their 80-column/Z-80
- card which comes with SB-80; I don't know if they manage to map the
- 8K around so it appears not to be isolated). The 8K is an O/S ROM,
- used by the 6510 for I/O routines. (nearly all I/O bios routines
- switch the 6510 back in) (the other missing 8K is 4K of memory-mapped
- I/O and the first 4K of the 6510 memory space, including zero page, O/S
- vectors, and 1K for screen memory)
- Joel
- (CBM Sysop)
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