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86-DOS was the CP/M work alike that was being written by Tim Patterson. | '''86-DOS''' was the [[CP/M]] work-alike that was being written by Tim Patterson. | ||
Howard M. Harte had a great information site (below). | |||
One thing that is interesting about 86-DOS on the [[S-100]] type machines, is that unlike the [[IBM PC]] the S-100's could access the full megabyte of RAM. According to Tim Patterson this feature was used within [[Microsoft]] until the creation of 32-bit tools to link the [[linking|linker]] that Microsoft had built because it needed so much memory. Although I was always under the impression that Microsoft had their compilers ported to a [[VAX]] and [[cross-compiler|cross-compiled]] stuff from there as it was faster, and didn't have the same memory limits... but that's from some un-based rumor I heard so you know... grain of salt. | |||
== How do I get this to run == | == How do I get this to run == | ||
There is a download like available to a [[SIMH]] image of the boot disk [http:// | There is a download like available to a [[SIMH]] image of the boot disk [http://schorn.ch/cpm/zip/86dos.zip here] Simply download the zip file & extract it, then use a version of SIMH's 3.0 or higher Altair [[Zilog Z80|Z80]] emulator to [[bootstrap]] it. Although the name may seem misleading, the Altair Z80 simulates a development environment that allows for an [[Intel 8086|8086]] [[co-processor]] to execute the 86-DOS Operating System. | ||
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==External links== | |||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20181002215506/http://www.86dos.org/index.htm http://www.86dos.org/index.htm Howard's Seattle Computer Products SCP 86-DOS Resource Website] | |||
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| 86-DOS | |
 Booting up the 86-DOS system | |
| Type: | Singletasking, Singleuser |
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| Creator: | Seattle Computer Products |
| Architecture: | IBM PC |
| This Version: | 1.0 (1981) |
| Date Released: | 1981 |
86-DOS was the CP/M work-alike that was being written by Tim Patterson.
Howard M. Harte had a great information site (below).
One thing that is interesting about 86-DOS on the S-100 type machines, is that unlike the IBM PC the S-100's could access the full megabyte of RAM. According to Tim Patterson this feature was used within Microsoft until the creation of 32-bit tools to link the linker that Microsoft had built because it needed so much memory. Although I was always under the impression that Microsoft had their compilers ported to a VAX and cross-compiled stuff from there as it was faster, and didn't have the same memory limits... but that's from some un-based rumor I heard so you know... grain of salt.
How do I get this to run
There is a download like available to a SIMH image of the boot disk here Simply download the zip file & extract it, then use a version of SIMH's 3.0 or higher Altair Z80 emulator to bootstrap it. Although the name may seem misleading, the Altair Z80 simulates a development environment that allows for an 8086 co-processor to execute the 86-DOS Operating System.
