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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: 128, CP/M, and Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <359@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 10:16:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 14 10:16:04 1987
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: Yes, it works.


	Yes, Turbo Pascal, CP/M version will indeed function on a
C-128.  I tried it out on a friend's C-128.  (I don't have my own
C-128.)  I think that he picked up the Turbo Pascal pacakge in
Kaypro disk format, although my memory is a bit unsure, it might
have been for one of the other CP/M boxes.

	The only bad part is that the 1571 disk drive performance
isn't as good as what you are used to on a PC compatible.  You can
use the setup program that comes with Turbo pascal to set up the
escape sequences for an Adm 3 terminal as per the C-128 user's
manual so that the Wordstar-like integral editor works just fine.
It'll even let you use color for text stand-out mode, etc.  Neat.

	This was on a fairly old version  of C-128 CP/M, so the
disk performance might be a lot nicer on newer releases, especially
if you use the ramdisk feature.

	You'll definitely need to acquire a CP/M format version of
Turbo Pascal, although using Xmodem or something similar, many of
the MS-DOS *.PAS programs can be transferred and run directly
without mods.

  --Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Medicine
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
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