"CP/M compatible" vs. "MS-DOS Compatible" machines?

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 03 February 2008 07:34, Allison wrote:
> >On Thursday 31 January 2008 10:07, Allison wrote:
> >> Whats more interesting is there was nothing to prevent a termcap file
> >> and later improved CP/M work alikes did exactly that and many more
> >> things.
> >
> >What sort of stuff would you put into the category of "CP/M work alikes"?
>
> NOvados, DOS+, ZRdos, Zsdos and ZCPR addons to CP/M.  They all could run
> CP/M programs but added things missing from basic V2.2.  The gotacha was
> they required z80 as they were stuffing all that into the same space
> required by V2.2.

Not much of a gotcha,  I don't think I'll be doing much with the 8080 these 
days anyhow,  and pretty much every single one of the CP/M boxes I have on 
hand here are all equipped with a Z80.

ZCPR I've run across,  those others are not familiar to me.  Are they out 
there and available?  Might be worth a look at them if so.

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