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Article #621720Re: Osborne 1 with speech synthesis
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:02
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:02
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On Thu, 05 Apr 2018 07:25:03 -0400 J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 Indeed it wasn't, I used dBase II on Televideo, Torch and Micromation hardware, it would run on anything with CP/M (and perhaps a Z80). CP/M code that needed a Z80 was often problematic under MP/M because it often assumed that the Z80 specific registers were safe since CP/M was an 8080 OS - occasionally this assumption bit nastily. The Micromation version of MP/M that coordinated their multi-Z80 boxes did that and so did the BCPL compiler we used - load the machine enough so that a compile winds up running on the coordinating processor and the whole system crashes because that processor also controls the hard disc. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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