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From: secrist@msdsws.DEC.COM (Richard Secrist, Digital Equip. Corp. USA)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: "naive" NEC question
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Date: 29 Nov 88 02:40:39 GMT
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	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