CP/M System Disks - Please Read

[CP/M User]

Although we're happy to help with enquiries concerning CP/M System Disks, we also recommend you try Daves Old Computers - Disk/Software Images (http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm) website or the Usenet group comp.os.cpm if you require CP/M System Disks.

Unfortunately in the passing of Don Maslin in August 2004, Don handled many of the CP/M System Disks which people could obtain from him, for more details check out Gaby's Domain (http://www.gaby.de/ecpm.htm) people are welcome to contact Gaby if they wish to carry on with Don's Legacy.

CP/M User.

[Erik]

Good info! Thanks!

[Mike Chambers]

AWESOME!!! you are the man!

that's exactly what i needed to get my 1981 osborne model 1 booted up. :p :p :p :p :p

[nige the hippy]

if you're local i could lend you mine, are you in the uk??? if so, pm with where

[mainframeOFpasta]

I have been look all around for this stuff. A thousand digital thanks.

[mainframeOFpasta]

Is it possible to get a machine from the pentium days to run on CP/M? What is CP/M wirtten in?

[Vlad]

http://www.gaby.de/ecpm86.htm

Use Google!!

[Terry Yager]

Besides CP/M-86, which was written for the 8086 archetecture, there are a number of good (free) emulators to run CP/M-80 on IBM-PC compatible hardware. Most of them may be downloaded from Gaby's site mentioned above.

CP/M-80 was originally written in a language called PL/M, which was a port for microprocessors of a mainframe language called PL/I. Later versions were written in assembly language, IIRC.

--T

[CP/M User]

Terry Yager wrote:

Besides CP/M-86, which was written for the 8086 archetecture, there are a number of good (free) emulators to run CP/M-80 on IBM-PC compatible hardware. Most of them may be downloaded from Gaby's site mentioned above.

There are also CP/M-80 emulators for CP/M-86. Personally though I'd go for an emulator and run CP/M through that (making sure you get an emulator which can handle CP/M well).

CP/M-80 was originally written in a language called PL/M, which was a port for microprocessors of a mainframe language called PL/I. Later versions were written in assembly language, IIRC.

Isn't it true though that parts of CP/M were written in raw Machine Code (possibly Assembly) due to the amount of memory limitations or memory limitations of the Boot Sector. This wouldn't have been large amount of code, though code critical towards making CP/M efficent bootup and be usable. PL/M indeed would have been used perhaps in sections like the command line operation and internal commands.