This is too easy ...

[mbbrutman]

A rant section on a bulletin board - this is going to be fun.

Things I can't stand ...

Reality TV.
Dumb TV in general.

People who cause door dings.
People who don't know which side of a door to pass though.
People who are always in a hurry.
People who don't take pride in their work.

Sniping on eBay.
Parting out working systems on eBay.

Inconsistencies in foreign policy.
Inconsistencies in domestic policy.


There, that should get some traffic going ... : - )

[CP/M User]

"mbbrutman" wrote in message:

> A rant section on a bulletin board - this is going to be fun.

Yes, this might be going to be the busyiest section in the
messageboard.

> Things I can't stand ...

> Reality TV.
> Dumb TV in general.

Ditto! I suppose you hate people saying ditto? :-(

> People who cause door dings.
> People who don't know which side of a door to pass though.

Even when there locked?

> People who are always in a hurry.

I hate that too. But probably for a different reason!

> People who don't take pride in their work.

That's not me.

> Sniping on eBay.
> Parting out working systems on eBay.

> Inconsistencies in foreign policy.
> Inconsistencies in domestic policy.


> There, that should get some traffic going ... : - )

Geez, I think there might be some flaming about
to happen here!

Regards.

[mbbrutman]

A locked door is a barrier, so that immediately changes the problem domain ..

Apparently if we want some traffic, we're going to have to ask the question:

What is the best operating system?



DOS 2.1 of course!!



(woohooo!)

[CP/M User]

"mbbrutman" wrote in message:

> A locked door is a barrier, so that immediately changes the
> problem domain ..

> Apparently if we want some traffic, we're going to have to ask
> the question:

> What is the best operating system?



> DOS 2.1 of course!!



(woohooo!)

My name suggests otherwise! ;-)

Though I just some ol' nut who has
CP/M on their 8bit & IBM computers! :-)

Regards.

[mbbrutman]

I gotta corner you and chat sometime ..

How are you running CPM on the PCs? Are you using CPM 86, or are you using a Nec V20 and running the Z80 version of it?

I've long thought about taking CPM for a test drive. Heck, even C64s can do it with the Z80 chip on the cartridge.

(Crap, this isn't a rant ...)

[CP/M User]

"mbbrutman" wrote in message:

> I gotta corner you and chat sometime ..

> How are you running CP/M on the PCs? Are you using CP/M-86,
> or are you using a Nec V20 and running the Z80 version of it?

No, I'm not using a NEC V20 chip. I'm using a modified version
of CP/M-86 v1.1 (written for the PC/XT originally) which was
modified to work on 286s/386s/486s/Pentiums, etc, etc.

There have also been many enhancements (some which I don't
use), such as support for 720kb & 1.44Mb & 1.2 Mb floppy
disks, a Ramdisk which uses the extended memory in the
computer (up to 15Mb I think), support for partitions on new &
large Hard disk spaces (there was a problem where the OS
only originally allowed an 8mb hard disk partition, because
of the size of really big hard disks nowadays, this is really
involved & can't quite explain all this to you) & there is a
program which allows you to have more than 8mb under
CP/M-86 (upto 120Mb I believe). But I don't use the Hard
Disk routines, since I think I have enough & get by without
them. I also think that 8mb is plenty for a system like CP/M-86.
I only have a 4Mb partition & think it's plentiful for what I do!
:-)

> I've long thought about taking CP/M for a test drive. Heck, even
> C64s can do it with the Z80 chip on the cartridge.

It can, but the results aren't too impressive from what I've heard. :-(

(Crap, this isn't a rant ...)

Erik will just move us to the CP/M section, if he thinks we're off-topic
here! :-) But if you want to rant on about the C64! :-)

[Terry Yager]

What is the best operating system?

My .02, CP/M 2.2 of course. It's the first OS I ever used, and the last one I ever understood. Having access to source code helped a lot, too.

[CP/M User]

"Terry Yager" wrote in message:

> What is the best operating system?

> My .02, CP/M 2.2 of course. It's the
> first OS I ever used, and the last one
> I ever understood. Having access to
> source code helped a lot, too.

On the IBM I use CP/M-86 v1.1 (which
is the 16bit version of CP/M 2.2!).
Programming it is great! :-)
On my Amstrad I like programming
CP/M 2.2 because it's so much easier
than CP/M Plus, which messes around
with the extra 64k (on my 128k
machine).

Some jokers in alt.folklore.computers
think that CP/M 2.2 is a bloated OS,
but everything would seem bloated to
them if they are using CP/M 1.x! :-(

Cheers.

[Terry Yager]

Yesw, I have played around with CP/M 86 and even CCP/m 86. It;s nice, but, no source code. Do you have any?

--T

[David Buttery]

DOS 2.1 of course!!(woohooo!)

Ooh, BBC Master 512 memories ahoy! That ran DOS 2.1 on the 80186 co-processor thingy. Dunno how well, though...