🚀 go-pugleaf

On 05 Apr 2018 02:44:46 -0300, Mike Spencer
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

>
>Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> writes:
>
>> On 04 Apr 2018 00:43:06 -0300, Mike Spencer wrote:
>>
>>> Interesting.  I was using Osbornes from '87 to '93, had the archive of
>>> (by then obsolete & discontinued) user-group newsletters, devised my
>>> own termcap entry so I could Unix/Emacs by remote dialup etc.  And
>>> never heard of that.
>> 
>> Wow, UNIX and Emacs on an Osborne? Intriguing.
>
>Um, Not *exactly*. Guess I need to be more precise.  Unix on a remote
>DEC or IBM workstation.  Dialup from Osborne, login to Unix, run
>Emacs.  Even so, when the guy whose kindness provided me with the
>academic Unix account visited and saw Emacs running^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
>displayed on the Osborne in an old farm house in the woods, he was hit
>with a fit of giggles.
>
>
>>> Also interesting that there's very little Osborne 1 traffic on
>>> comp.os.cpm.  It was a very versatile & durable machine and full specs
>>> were available.
>> 
>> And had a lot of software bundles. I guess I have a quite complete
>> collection of software which came with in. I have no real Osborne but can
>> emulate it on my (Linux) PC.
>
>I really liked the DBase II Osborne software.  When I tried to run it
>in a CP/M emulator, it appeared that DBase had been hand-hacked to take
>advantage of specific Osborne hardware features.  Didn't work well
>enough to use.  There may be better emulators now but I gave away all
>my O1 stuff to a computer museum over a decade ago.

Did the emulator emulate an 8080 or a Z80?  IIRC dBase II needed a
Z80.  dBase II wasn't an Osborne-specific product.  I had it on my
Z-89 and it went through a number of iterations on the PC before
Foxbase ate it.