Follow-up to Z-100 tinkering

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From: Walter Koziarz
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 11:50

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Well, continued tampering with PC-DOS 3.2 (attempts to 'graft' its 
[equivalent] MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM to Z-100 IO.SYS) have lead me to 
conclude that this is possible; but in the realm of:  "Why bother????".

I saw no tangible benefit other than satisfying curiosity as to the
'machine-independence' of MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM.  Most commands DID work
and the system booted, ran WatchWord and other Z-100-specific applications.

The 10MHz clock-rate tinker seems (from my fractal-image oriented perspective)
to be much more worth pursuing.  The only real question I am still uncertain
of with regard to 10MHz is whether the PALs on the 8087 board can keep-up.

More to follow as I proceed.

Walt K.

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