[TriLUG] What's the Fairest Distro of All?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 13:39:57 -0500, Scott G. Hall
<ScottGHall at bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Believe it or not, you can have your CP/M and Linux too!  I have a Heathkit
> CP/M emulator written for MS-DOS that runs great under Win4Lin loaded with
> Win98 on my Debian box.  Anyone want to "pip" some files?  It won't read
> CP/M floppies though ...  And I can't count when was the last time I loaded
> a hard-sectored 5.25" 160K floppy.

Ok, let me get this straight.  You're running one OS (CP/M) on an
emulation subsystem (DOS) running on an emulated OS (Windows 98)
running under Linux?  Ha! I like it. :-)  There used to be a great 
screenshot on the net somewhere that had something like 7 or 8
stacked OS emulators on it (one of them was Sheepshaver running
under Mac OS7 [or 8 or 9?]).  I wonder whatever happened on that.

BTW, why didn't you just try DOSEMU?
 
> Oh, and Tanner -- 8080/Z80 is strictly 8-bit.  Not even 8-bit Small-C will
> compile the 16-bit Linux for it.  (sigh)  And somewhere I still have that
> old Heath-Zenith Z100 S-100-bus dual-processor box in the attic ...
> (CP/M, CP/M-86 and MS-DOS 2.1 !!)

Yes, I did know that.  While never having had to program on the Z-80
myself, I did once help port something from there and had to become
fairly familiar with the platform.  That was over 17 years ago, though,
so I doubt I remember much. :-)  Hopefully you noticed that my
tongue was firmly in cheek earlier. :-)

Of course, there does seem to be interest in having something linux
like running on 8 bit processors:

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6984970954.html

I wonder how something like that would run on one of the 
newest 50Mhz Z80s? - http://www.embedded.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=9900504

Cheers,
Tanner
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