Old School: Anybody Still Use CP/M ?

the empty calorie

Nov 8 2005, 11:03 AM

Just because I'm curious...Does anyone here still use CP/M?

If so, what do you do with it? I've been toying with the idea of putting some CP/M software on a disk and using my CP/M-86 bootdisk to run it, but I have no CP/M software, and don't really know what's good.

Or how about this, does anyone here still use anything that predates PC-DOS?

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theflashguru

Nov 8 2005, 09:21 PM

QUOTE(the empty calorie @ Nov 8 2005, 11:03 AM)

Just because I'm curious...Does anyone here still use CP/M?

If so, what do you do with it? I've been toying with the idea of putting some CP/M software on a disk and using my CP/M-86 bootdisk to run it, but I have no CP/M software, and don't really know what's good.

Or how about this, does anyone here still use anything that predates PC-DOS?

Yes, Iv got an old junk computer that runs PC-Dos

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yungblood

Nov 8 2005, 10:55 PM

I own an old TRS-80, but I haven't used it in ages. I haven't used CP/m in so long, I completely forgot how to use it. I guess the closest thing you could say that in some ways predates PC-DOS is linux. The way that it predates PC-DOS is that it is based on unix, which the original version of unix came out before DOS

I have also used unix, and I own an old sparc, with SunOS, but I don't use it anymore.

-YungBlood

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the empty calorie

Nov 10 2005, 03:15 AM

I don't mean based-on, I mean itself. TRS-DOS or NEW DOS on your TRS-80 would count. And I wasn't trying to include PC-DOS..

Hey, what model of TRS-80 is it, anyways?

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yungblood

Nov 11 2005, 01:29 AM

QUOTE(the empty calorie @ Nov 9 2005, 08:15 PM)

I don't mean based-on, I mean itself. TRS-DOS or NEW DOS on your TRS-80 would count. And I wasn't trying to include PC-DOS..

Hey, what model of TRS-80 is it, anyways?

I didn't even have TRS-DOS on that TRS-80, I didn't even have a disk drive connected to it. I think it had 8k of ram. I don't remember the model right off hand. I haven't even looked at it in ages. I've thought about using the tape drive that I have for it, and connecting it to a modern computer, to see if I can write a driver that will let me get all my old programs that I wrote.

-YB

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the empty calorie

Nov 11 2005, 05:53 AM

Oh wow...must be one of the Model 1's or something...
Anyways, I've seen that the source code for CP/M has been put up...I figure it might be kind of interesting, if I knew completely what I was doing, to modernise CP/M. I got the chance to play with CP/M-86 a bit, and boy, did I like it much better than DOS. Wish I still had my IBM XT laying around.

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