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From: esrbt@warwick.ac.uk (Dr B Khamsehpour)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: 8085 code -->80286 code
Date: 21 Jul 92 15:22:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.os.msdos.misc, sci.electronics, comp.os.cpm
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK

Hello world,

I would like to translate 8085 assembly code [written for ASM85 Assembler]

to 80286 or 80386 assembly code.

I am looking for an efficient way of doing this, perhaps an automatic
translation.

I will be grateful, for any suggestions. You can mail me at the following
address and I will post a summary of all suggestions (if any) to the net.
Or if you prefer, post it directly to the net.

Email address:  es059@uk.ac.warwick


I am new to this news group. I hope it is the right place for such a
question.



Babak
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I would like to translate 8085 assembly code [written for ASM85 Assembler]

to 80286 or 80386 assembly code.

I am looking for an efficient way of doing this, perhaps an automatic
translation (if there is a way).

I will be grateful, for any suggestions.

I do not have direct access to the net. I am using my friend's account in
order to post this article. Therefore, I will be grateful if you could
send your replies to the following address.

Email address:  es059@uk.ac.warwick.eng

I will post a summary of all suggestions (if any) to the net.


frank
From: rsa@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Ruth Aylett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Rair Black Box disk format?
Date: 29 Jul 92 15:33:18 GMT
Reply-To: rsa@arrc.salf.ac.uk (Ruth Aylett)
Organization: Advanced Robotics Research Centre, Salford, UK.

I am trying to fish some text files off 5 1/4 inch CPM disks in order to
put them on an msdos machine. Unfortunately, the CPM machine is a
specially obscure one: an ancient ICL PC which I believe was a Rair
Black Box in disguise. I have various programs which do this kind of
thing, but of course none of them mention Rairs (or ICLs). Does anyone
know if the format used by Rairs corresponds to that on a less obscure
machine?

I can tell from the disks that they are DS/DD 48 tpi soft sectored, but
even then that leaves an awful lot of possibles. If anybody has any
clues, please email them to me.

Ruth Aylett
R.Aylett@arrc.salf.ac.uk
rsa@arrc.uucp
From: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: files ending .?z?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 02:52:07 PDT
Organization: Ian Justman's pitiful excuse for an AT clone

abbadon@nuchat.sccsi.com (David Neal) writes:

> Ok, so it's been a while since I've used CP/M. I have a program
> to extract .?q? files. What do you use to extract files with
> .?z? extensions? I need this program to run under MS/DOS.

I wouldn't mind myself.  Also a program that does *.?y? files
would be nice as well.
From: jjs40@cd.amdahl.com (John Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Basis 108/Apple II CP/M
Date: 29 Jul 92 16:48:13 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

I recently picked up a old system called a Basis 108.  It apparently
is a West-German manufactured Apple II clone with a built in Z80.  
This system will boot AppleDOS and Microsoft Softcard CP/M (CP/M
for the Apple II with a Z80 "softcard".)  

The motherboard in this beast has built in serial/parallel connectors.
However, booting under Microsoft Softcard CP/M does not recognize the
existence of these ports.  I assume that this version of CP/M is looking
for serial/parallel ports in the general Apple card slots (which are empty)
and not wherever in memory the built-in ports are located.  The only
solution I can come up with is to either A) find a Basis-specific CP/M
boot disk or B) to come up with some schematics and try and hack the
Microsoft CP/M that I have.

So, has anyone ever seen or heard of this machine?  Do you have a boot
disk or schematics, or know where I can get them?  Any other general clues?
While this system will run some Apple II software, it seems much more
well suited to running CP/M.

--

Also, I have a real Apple II with a Z80 card that I am planning to use
to run CP/M (this system works fine - serial and parallel ports all 
work.)  Does anyone have any general advice about this type of system?

For people who want to get mess around with CP/M hacking, the AppleII/Z80
combo seems like a very cheap system.  I've seen Apples priced as low
as $25-$50, and Z80 cards as low as $3-$10.

-- 
John Sullivan, Engineer/Computer Development.   Email: jjs40@cd.amdahl.com.
Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA.               Phone: (408)746-4688.
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: alpha@wyvern.twuug.com (Joe Wright)
Subject: Re: Undocumented Z80 Opcodes
Organization: Box 68621, Virginia Beach, 23455
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 03:30:20 GMT

sage@LL.MIT.EDU (Jay Sage) writes:
: Willy answered me with:
: 
: >> Both the '180 and '280 have expanded instruction sets that make use of
: >> the so-called un-documented instructions, particularly in the ED-xx
: >> group...
: 
: Thanks for the reply, but I did not completely understand it.  I knew, of
: course, that the Z180 and Z280 had expanded instruction sets, and I would
: have guessed that most if not all of the so-called undocumented Z80 opcodes
: would have been used.  The question is, do none, some, or all of the
: formerly undocumented codes work on the Z180 and Z280 chips as they do on
: the Z80?  If some program authors made use of those undocumented opcodes,
: will their programs no longer work properly?
: 
: -- Jay Sage
: 
Imposter? :)
The Jay Sage I know has both Z80 and Z180 machines at hand.  My Jay would
be answering these questions instead of posing them.  (Just kidding Jay.)

But the question of whether undocumented (read unsupported) opcodes work
or not is moot.  If you use them on your Z80 machine and they work for
you at 'your house' there is no reasonable assurance that they will work
the same way on a Z80 at 'my house' (though they probably will).  And if
they don't, there is nobody to complain to (except the author of the
'broken' code).  The Z180 began life as a Hitachi 64180 and has nothing
in common architecturally with the Zilog Z80.  If any 'undocumented'
Z80 ops produce the same results on a 180 it would be by accident rather
than plan.  And you wouldn't actually use them in a program would you?

It is academically interesting I guess.  Somebody (not me) ought to 
document the undocumented opcodes for both processors and compare the
results.  Offer all results to the net and/or znode and rcpm systems
and stand back.  There are still a few hackers out there who will test
what you say and confirm or argue against your conclusions.  It might
be fun.  But maybe not important.  You wouldn't use them!

-- 
Joe Wright  alpha@wyvern.twuug.com
From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M operating sys for intel machines?
Date: 27 Jul 92 10:49:22 MDT
Organization: Utah State University

In article <1992Jul24.150344.25605@wam.umd.edu>, lenin@wam.umd.edu (Alberto Alejandro Perez-Pulido) writes:
> I wanted to know if there is a full cp/m operating system
> that can run on a 386sx machine. I just purchased an extra
> hard drive and have plenty space to repartition my drive
> and try another operating system with a boot manager.
> Does anybody know if there is a cp/m that I can put in a partition
> in my hard disk and can boot from it?
> where could I get it?

The folks that make Uniform, MicroSolutions, make a CP/M emulator that runs
from the DOS file structure. They also have an 8MHz CP/M coprocessor that
the emulation software knows how to fire up; so you can have CP/M software
run on a fast Z80 instead of interpreted slowly by a 386.

An interesting feature of MicroSolutions' emulator is that you can tell it
that anything ending with a specific extension (I use .CPM) is a CP/M
executable and it will automatically detect it from the command line and
fire it over to the coprocessor. In other words, you can type ZSID at the
DOS command line and get ZSID running.

> Lenin@wam.umd.edu                                 

Interesting user name. Ever hear of the band "Trotsky Icepick"?

Roger Ivie
ivie@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
From: behof@rtsg.mot.com (Maureen Behof)
Subject: Osborne interest?
Summary: Is there life for an osborne?
Keywords: osborne
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: comp.os.cpm
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:22:26 GMT

I have an Osborne, monitor, and lots of software
gathering dust.  If anyone is interested in owning
such a beast, email me, and I will give you all
the details, as well as a list of the software 
that I have for it.
 
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games,comp.sys.tandy,alt.folklore.computers
From: siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck )
Subject: Re: TRS-80 Cosmic Fighter by Big Five - PLEASE HELP!
Keywords: TRS-80 COSMIC FIGHTER BIG FIVE FOLKLORE WANTED
Organization: RMI Net INFO.box Systems * Aachen * Hamburg * Flensburg
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 05:39:33 GMT

u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au (Paul Anthony Wilkinson) writes:

>9125113g@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:

>>Does any kind soul out there remember a game for the TRS-80 called
>>"Cosmic Fighter" by Big Five Software?

[Nice description deleted.]

>Ahh! Memories!

>Paul

Mmmh, I got it running here on my Emulator, but I prefer the original
Cornsoft FROGGER! Much better sound :-)

Wolfgang
--
siebeck@infoac.rmi.de (Wolfgang Siebeck)
From: takem_b@pyramid.unr.edu (Brian Takemoto)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: (X/)Y/Zmodem Programs for CPM machine.
Summary: File Transfers via CPM
Keywords: Communications
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:15:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Nevada, Reno  Department of Computer Science


We are in need of a (Batch) File Transfer Program for a CPM machine.
Does anybody know where one exists and if so, what it is called and
where it is available?  An FTP site would be preferrable, but not
necessary.  Thanks in advance...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: tom@vpnet.chi.il.us (Tom Hansen)
Subject: Re: vi for AOS/VS (was grep)
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:12:19 GMT

In article <7845@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone) writes:
>tom@vpnet.chi.il.us (Tom Hansen) writes:
>
>
>
>>	Also, if anyone knows of a port of vi to AOS/VS, please let me
>>	know.  I'd kill for a decent editor on this beast!
>
>A
>You have an interesting notion of a decent editor :-)
>
>Emacs is available for the MV, there is a version on the User Group tape.

	Please....I said "decent"!! :)   Actually, I don't know
	anything about emacs...other than what I read in the flame
	wars.  I've been using vi for 10 years, am more than happy
	with it, and have no desire to change.  It's been suggested
	that I get  copy of a unix shell which runs on top of aos.
	Too much overhead just for an editor.  Also, I don't have
	a compiler on the beast, for those who suggested I try to port
	it myself.  I was thinking that someone had probably done it
	by now....appears not.
>  
>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Zebee Johnstone  DoD #605   | You don't own an Italian motorcycle 
>     Adelaide City Council       |  - you merely have the privilege 
>    zebee@itd.adelaide.edu.au    |    of paying its bills.... 


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| tom@vpnet.chi.il.us  ||  clothes.  I wraps my hair around my bare, and    |
| "I yam what I yam"   ||  down the road I goes."    - Shel Silverstein     |
|______________________||___________________________________________________|
From: zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: Re: vi for AOS/VS (was grep)
Date: 26 Jul 92 12:14:10 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

kurt@cs.tamu.edu (Kurt Freiberger) writes:

>Remember:  EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes and Continuously Swapping.

>8-}
>Kurt

Sure, but it keeps the programmers off my back!  

And Powerhouse is several orders of magnitude worse....  IF they 
do the editing in Emacs instead of Qdesign, them I'm bloody thankful!


>-- 
>Kurt Freiberger, wb5bbw	  kurt@cs.tamu.edu   409/847-8607  fax:409/847-8578
>Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University      DoD #264: BMW R80/7 pilot
>"We preserve our freedom using three boxes: ballot, jury, and cartridge."
>      *** Not an official document of Texas A&M University ***
-- 
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     Zebee Johnstone  DoD #605   | You don't own an Italian motorcycle 
     Adelaide City Council       |  - you merely have the privilege 
    zebee@itd.adelaide.edu.au    |    of paying its bills.... 
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
From: kurt@cs.tamu.edu (Kurt Freiberger)
Subject: Re: vi for AOS/VS (was grep)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:25:47 GMT

Remember:  EMACS stands for Eight Megabytes and Continuously Swapping.

8-}
Kurt

-- 
Kurt Freiberger, wb5bbw	  kurt@cs.tamu.edu   409/847-8607  fax:409/847-8578
Dept. of Computer Science, Texas A&M University      DoD #264: BMW R80/7 pilot
"We preserve our freedom using three boxes: ballot, jury, and cartridge."
      *** Not an official document of Texas A&M University ***
From: zebee@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Zebee Johnstone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.aos
Subject: User group tape and emacs
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:35:53 GMT
Organization: Information Technology Division, The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA

For all those who want EMACS for their MV, or a point and click 
file manager, or Kermit, or all sorts of other good things, read on.

NADGUG (North American Data General Users Group) has a tape with all this 
and more available to members.
You also get a magazine with lots of useful system admin tips.

Membership info (for U.S. types):
	NADGUG
	c/o Danieli & O'Keefe Associates Inc.
	Association Management
	Chiswick Park
	490 Boston Post Rd
	Sudbury MA 01776

	Phone is 508/443-3330
Fee is $US60 per year.


For Australian MV users 
	Australian Data General Users Group
	PO Box A563
	Sydney South NSW 2000

Not sure what the membership fee is, our accounts dept handles that!

Wherever you are, your DG office can put you in touch with the user group.


-- 
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     Zebee Johnstone  DoD #605   | You don't own an Italian motorcycle 
     Adelaide City Council       |  - you merely have the privilege 
    zebee@itd.adelaide.edu.au    |    of paying its bills....
From: idy@cs.uq.oz.au (To Idy I)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: looking for more recent info...
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:41:03 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


I'm currently doing some research on the distributed operating system,
MICROS. After going through the many possible  sources that I know, all
I could get are just a few papers published during 1981 to 1984 by the
original authors, Van Tilborg and L.D. Wittie.

I just wonder if anyone has got more recent information than mine or
know about any organizations using this system, please kindly inform me
if you do so. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!

  Idy To       CS Dept. University of Queensland, Australia
  email add.:  idy@cs.uq.oz.au
From: shankar@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (shankar n swamy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: References on microkernals ... please
Date: 21 Jul 92 02:22:09 GMT
Organization: Indiana University
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


I need some basic references on micro (and nano) kernels.  
It doesn't seem like it has come into text books level yet.
Ideally a review article is what I need.  But any reference
would help.

Thanks, in advance.

- shankar swamy
------------------------------------------------------------
shankar@cs.indiana.edu
Xref: sparky comp.os.research:848 ieee.tcos:1
From: Darrell Long <darrell@cse.ucsc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.research,ieee.tcos
Subject: Announcing IEEE.TCOS
Date: 30 Jul 1992 20:11:36 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


The IEEE Technical Committee on Operating Systems and Application
Environments is pleased to announce the electronic publication of its
news letter.  We hope that this will make TCOS accessible to a wider
audience and will interest more researchers and practitioners in its
activities.

Our plan to to publish "regular issues" approximately quarterly.  These
will be in the form of PostScript files posted to the ieee.tcos news
group (If you do not have Usenet news access, we can send issues to you
using electronic mail).  Issues of the news letter will be archived on
ftp.cse.ucsc.edu [128.114.134.19] in the directory /pub/tcos/v#n# and
will be accessible via anonymous FTP.

In addition to these regular issues we will publish calls for papers
and participation, and other announcements in "real time" (in clear
text).  This should improve on the old system since there will be only
a small delay for these time critical announcements.

We welcome submissions to the news letter.  These include:

* Project descriptions		* Short papers

* Letters to the Editor		* Technical report announcements

* Job announcements		* Calls for papers

* Standards committee reports	* Book reviews

All submissions should be in LaTeX with a BibTeX bibliography file.

Submissions can be made by sending electronic mail to tcos@cse.ucsc.edu or
by posting to the ieee.tcos news group (the news software will automatically
mail your submission).

We are also seeking regular or semi-regular columnists to write short reports
on various topics of interest.  If you're interested in such things, send 
electronic mail to tcos@cse.ucsc.edu.

Our first issue should be out in the next week, so watch for it!

Regards, DL
From: jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu (John Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Looking for paper on Andrew and UNIX
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:14:05 GMT
Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


I'm hoping someone can help me track down a paper I enjoyed reading
around 1986-88 or so. I dimly recall that it dealt with the problems
the Andrew developers met when building on top of Berkeley UNIX. It
included a lot of useful practitioner's design criteria they developed
to, for example, avoid exhausting resources inside the UNIX kernel,
etc.

I've been through all the papers available via FTP on
emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu, and neither those papers nor anything
referenced in their bibliographies ring a bell. I've WAISed around the
usual tech-report sources to no avail. And I spent an evening rummaging
around in my hardcopy files and journals at home (hey, I'm desperate!).

Papers that are _close_ to what I'm remembering (and are useful in their
own right) are:

	Howard et al., "Scale and Performance in a Distributed File
	System", ACM TOCS, Feb 88

	Morris, "'Make or Take' Decisions in Andrew", USENIX
	Proceedings, Feb 1988

	Treese, "Berkeley UNIX on 1000 Workstations: Athena Changes to
	4.3BSD", ?

Any pointers anyone can provide would be appreciated. It is always
possible, given how long ago I think I read this paper, that I'm
confusing it's existence or description with something else, so I know
this is a long shot.  Please email responses to jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu.
Thanks in advance!

--
John Sloan              "Since I've given up hope,        +1 303 497 1243
NCAR/SCD                   I feel much better."       Fax +1 303 497 1137
Boulder CO 80307-3000 USA                            jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu
Logical Disclaimer:  belong(opinions,jsloan). belong(opinions,_):-!,fail.
From: mitchell@unlv.edu (Mitchell Flatebo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: looking for a paper
Date: 28 Jul 1992 18:09:43 GMT
Organization: UNLV Computer Science
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


I am trying to find the paper "Self-Stabilizing Real-Time Rule-Based Systems"
by Albert Mo Kim Cheng. If anyone could help me locate the paper or has the
email address of Albert Mo Kim Cheng, I would appreciate it.

Mitchell Flatebo
From: karger@osf.org (Paul A. Karger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Re: capability-based filesystem?
Date: 24 Jul 92 19:30:29 GMT
Organization: Open Software Foundation
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp

In article <148al2INNnr8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Richard.Black@cl.cam.ac.uk (Richard Black) (Richard Black) writes:
|> In article <141qj1INN8ap@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, ino@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Shigekazu
|> Inohara) writes:
|> 
|> > I am studying capability-based protection, and a question came to my
|> > mind: "how to build a filesystem with per-file capabilities?"
|> 
|> > Any pointers to literatures, intuitive ideas, ... anything is welcome.
|> 
|> 
|> This is an old chestnut. Such a fileserver was built to support the
|> Cambridge Distributed Computing System way back before Nfs and ethernet.
|> I was still a kid then so can't really say much but the classic reference is:
|> 
|> Needham R. M. and Herbert A. J., "The Cambridge Distributed Computer System"
|> International Computer Science Series. Addison-Wedley, 1982
|> 
|> Many other people have done similar things too.
|> 
|> ----
|> Richard Black
|> University of Cambridge
|> Computer Laboratory
|> Cambridge
|> United Kingdom
|> 
|> 

You should also read my paper, "Limiting the Damage Potential of
Discretionary Trojan Horses", that appeared in the 1987 IEEE Symposium
on Security and Privacy, pp. 32-37.  It discusses some of the more
subtle problems that occur when you do name to capability translation
in a capability-based file system.

For more complete details, see my dissertation "Improving Security and 
Performance for Capability Systems", University of Cambridge 
Computer Laboratory Technical Report No. 149, October 1988.
From: engler@cs.arizona.edu (Dawson R. Engler)
Newsgroups: comp.os.research
Subject: Thread Package Request
Date: 22 Jul 92 23:15:00 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.cse.ucsc.edu
Originator: osr@ftp


We are looking for a fast, minimal threads package that runs under Unix.
It should support 'true' parallelism (i.e. multiple physical processors
can execute the various threads).  Portability would obviously be nice,
but if it runs either on Sequent Symmetry, SGI Iris, or BBN Butterfly/TC2000,
we would be happy.

Thank you,
        Dawson Engler / David Lowenthal

        {engler | dkl }@cs.arizona.edu