Mesg: 389  (R)           Date: 28 Jun 92
Fldr: General            Time: 11:40:27
Subj: MYZ80
From: Howard Goldstein   To:  Russell Boyce

Thanks for the info on MYZ80. Really sounds fascinating and I think it may 
be just the thing for me as I will eventually have to get an AT.

Knowing Z-System as well as I do, I have lots of questions. Not having 
access to CPMTECH (and not being willing to call Australia), I wonder if 
you could answer them or pass them on to someone who can.

First, will the BDOS be CP/M 2.2 or 3.0 compatible? If 2.2, will NZCOM 
actually run in it? (There is a restriction in NZCOM as to the number of 
additional BIOS vectors that can be supported. NZCOM will not work on the 
ON! system, for example, because its BIOS has too large a jump table.) Does 
MYZ80 require a separate hard disk partition for CP/M files? If so, is it 
possible to have a program running under MYZ80 read or write a DOS file? If 
MYZ80 doesn't use a separate partition, can we still use CP/M's superior 
method of file date stamping? Finally, I'm wondering about screen handling 
in non-Z programs and the TCAP for Z-System.
   
Thanks for any further info you can provide.

Mesg: 493  (R)           Date: 10 Jul 92
Fldr: General            Time: 22:46:45
Subj: MYZ80
From: Russell Boyce      To:  Howard Goldstein

MYZ80 is a Z-80 emulator; hence you upload any flavor Z-80 operating system 
and bios you wish to run. It comes with a p.d. CP/M 3.0 replacement called 
ZPM3 by the same author that is fully Z-system compatible. It is also 
available seperately and is self installing. MYZ80 allows up to 3 eight meg 
partitions on the DOS drive. You can use OS/2 and run several versions of 
MYZ80 at the same time with any flavor operating system in each window. The 
thing that exites me is that you can run all the oddball operating systems 
like Apple CP/M, T-DOS for the ADAM, TRS-80 LS-DOS, etc. to do development 
work at speeds never before possible. As for your accessing CPMTECH 
yourself I have posted several FidoNet BBS numbers near you. All you have 
to do is convince the sysop to carry CPMTECH off the FidoNet backbone. He 
is getting his echos there now and it is very simple to turn on another 
one. It does cost him the extra time and money but at 50 messages a night 
ZIPped at 1600 cps I am sure if you offer to help pay for it he will turn 
you down and offer it for free. It is their hobby and they enjoy having 
active BBS users.