Re: TI-73 and TI-89

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Subject: Re: TI-73 and TI-89
From: Andrew Lewis <floodle@USA.NET>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 00:55:17 GMT
Organization: Trilateral Commision
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On Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:48:59 -0500, Joseph Gaffney
<gaffney@THETHINKER.COM> wrote:

>At 07:55 PM 3/15/98 +0000, Andrew Lewis wrote:
>>        CP/M was written for the 8080 and 8088/86 only, and is still
>>under copyright.  How do you plan on porting it to the (68000-based)
>>TI/89?
>
>No.  It was made for z80's as well.  It is also freely released, as Caldera
>(the present owners) received many requests.  Ports are relatively easy
>when written in C, you can use an assembly generator, and work on it that
>way.  There are ports of minix to the 68k.
>
>
>
>- Joseph Gaffney
>- gaffney@thethinker.com
>- http://www.thethinker.com/members/gaffney/
>- http://www.ArchAgency.com/

        The z80 is binary compatible with the 8080 (that's where zilog
got the "80" in the name!), so that would be why.  The z80 was/is much
faster, of course.

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Re: TI-73 and TI-89

From: Joseph Gaffney <gaffney@THETHINKER.COM>

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