Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site timeb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!timeinc!timeb!dwight From: dwight@timeb.UUCP (Dwight Ernest) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: [DEVCTR@USC-ISI.ARPA: ZENITH 150 compatibility query] Message-ID: <15@timeb.UUCP> Date: Sun, 30-Sep-84 20:59:48 EDT Article-I.D.: timeb.15 Posted: Sun Sep 30 20:59:48 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Oct-84 07:35:32 EDT References: <12446@sri-arpa.UUCP> Organization: Time, Inc. - New York Lines: 17 IBM PC compatibility is not an exact "science". There's little one can do to determine "exactly how compatible the Zenith Z-150 is with the IBM PC". The key word here is "exact". There's no way Zenith or any software vendor can make any such sort of determination. However, I do know that the Z-150 is an extraordinarily compatible machine, perhaps moreso than even the Compaq machine. The key is in how well the software people at Zenith appear to have emulated the IBM PC ROM BIOS... the Zenith folks appear to have done a marvelously good job. But with the large number of software packages out there, and the various different ways that a programmer or a programming staff can write code for PC-DOS, there's no way to measure "compatibility" quantitatively. -- --Dwight Ernest KA2CNN \ Usenet:...vax135!timeinc!dwight Time Inc. Editorial Technology Group, New York City Voice: (212) 554-5061 \ Compuserve: 70210,523 \ EIES: 1228 Telemail: EDPISG/TIMEINC \ MCI: DERNEST