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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>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?</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=khandy21yo@gmail.com href="mailto:khandy21yo@gmail.com">Kevin
Handy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=billcun@suddenlink.net
href="mailto:billcun@suddenlink.net">Bill Cunningham</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=simh@trailing-edge.com
href="mailto:simh@trailing-edge.com">simh@trailing-edge.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:46
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Simh] C64 and C128</DIV>
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<DIV>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. <BR><BR></DIV>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).<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Bill Cunningham <SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> 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
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bill</FONT></DIV>
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