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Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by Floppyrom on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:29AM (#48397138)
What was the peak moment for CP/M? Wordstar?
Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by tengwar2 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @08:00AM (#48397442)
I'd say the last versions of CP/M for the Z80 - particularly on the Amstrad CPC128, PCW256 and PCW256. We had a whole lab using PCWs as standard equipment, including one sitting at a 3000V DC offset in a perspex cage (controlling part of a C14 accelerator). CP/M 3.0 did bank-switched memory, so the graphics were switched out and you could copy the user-space utilities in to a RAM disk on startup. It was reasonably easy to write RSXs (analogous to TSRs on MS/DOS), which can be handy on a single-tasking OS.
Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by rigonkulous on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:19AM (#48399054)
GEM.
Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by whobre on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:30AM (#48399230)
GEM ran on MSDOS and GEMDOS
Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by rigonkulous on Friday June 05, 2026 @05:36AM (#48410148)
GEM had a CP/M compatibility mode.
Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by nickdothutton on Thursday June 04, 2026 @11:29AM (#48400152)
Supercalc2, Maxam2, dBASE II. You could do a lot with CP/M software, especially if you had access to a hard drive which would eliminate the "insert floppy disk X into drive Y" tedium.
Re:CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment by kjs3 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:41PM (#48407321)
Add Turbo Pascal.