[Simh] C64 and C128

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2015-07-01 01:56, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> I remember those floppy drives where big and heavy. I never had cp/m or
> a c128. I am reading that an 8502 and Z80A (which I can't find anything
> on) was inside. The Z80A was about 4 MHz. The Z80A word size I do not
> know. It was of course an 8 bit with a 16 bit address bus I believe. Now
> which is "memory word" size?

You are asking very weird questions.
What do you mean by "word size"?

	Johnny

>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Kevin Handy <mailto:khandy21yo at gmail.com>
>     *To:* Bill Cunningham <mailto:billcun at suddenlink.net>
>     *Cc:* simh at trailing-edge.com <mailto:simh at trailing-edge.com>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:46 PM
>     *Subject:* Re: [Simh] C64 and C128
>
>     The C64 did not run cp/m out of the box, because it did not have any
>     kind of Intel 8080 based processor. You could buy a cartridge (iirc)
>     that would allow you to run cp/m, but it was basically bolting a
>     cp/m machine onto the side of the C64.
>
>     The C128 had both the C64 processor, and a Z80 processor built in,
>     and it could run cp/m. The floppy drive speed was really lousy
>     though (300 baud serial bus iirc).
>
>     On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Bill Cunningham
>     <billcun at suddenlink.net <mailto:billcun at suddenlink.net>> wrote:
>
>         __
>              Did the C64 not run CP/M? I know the 128 did. It had a 8502
>         processor and Z80A processor I believe. One was for CP/M. What
>         good is a commodore machine without CP/M ;)
>         Bill
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