Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!msdsws.DEC.COM!secrist From: secrist@msdsws.DEC.COM (Richard Secrist, Digital Equip. Corp. USA) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: "naive" NEC question Message-ID: <8811290240.AA20184@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 29 Nov 88 02:40:39 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 21 You can get tons of technical info about NECs from either NEC or private sources I've talked about in prior notes regarding '8500. They're all closely related -- you might even say incestuous. I'm on the road and don't have the info I posted earlier, but those sources should be able to get you any about-this-box and can-I-buy-it questions answered. I can post it again later and/or you could post specific questions here where we can answer them. Overgeneralizing most of this class of CP/M laptop can run generic CP/M things in truncated TPAs (~32K) without additional hardware, and with more plug in gadgets can be full-fledged CP/M boxes with disks and everything. You can't mung the BIOS and stuff the same way since they're all ROMed into place, but CP/M is still alive and well (although it's not "getting better," and the liquidators are "bringing out their dead" [MF-DOS boxes are getting so cheap that CP/M systems don't draw much of a price anymore]). rcs