Timeline for Fastest non-emulated CP/M Z80-based computer ever built?
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| Sep 21, 2018 at 22:50 | comment | added | Alan Cox | There were AFAIK no SMP variants of CP/M or MP/M. At the time it made far more sense to have multiple boards sharing a disk using CP/NET. Thus 'multi processor' CP/M systems were what today we'd probably call a cluster or a client/fileserver setup even if it was in the same case. | |
| Sep 21, 2018 at 15:33 | comment | added | dirkt | (See edit of question). It looks like each Z80 in the ZMOB just runs CP/M to provide an environment for each single processor, and that was not the intention of the question. The question actually didn't ask about FPGAs, but somebody mentioned it, so the reaction was "ok, if it was actually meant for running CP/M in real use for some reason, then ok". So if SoCZ80 wasn't just "it's a cool retro project, let's use an FPGA" but "I have now used only CP/M and native tools for a few weeks on SoCZ80, and written the following programs", I guess it would count, even as retro project. | |
| Sep 21, 2018 at 8:44 | comment | added | Alan Cox | The ZMOB system can run CP/M and this is explicitly stated on page 958 of ijcai.org/Proceedings/81-2/Papers/071.pdf where they talk about being able to use existing CP/M tooling. On the FPGA part I agree - but the question asked about FPGA as well. | |
| Sep 21, 2018 at 8:38 | history | edited | Alan Cox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 21, 2018 at 8:37 | comment | added | Alan Cox | SocZ80 was designed to run CP/M, MP/M and UZI - it's a retrocomputing project. I've added the URL. | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 6:22 | comment | added | dirkt | Yes, "CP/M" is a crucial criterion for this question. ZMOB is very interesting, but googling seems to indicate it was a ring-like structure with a central VAX, so probably no CP/M. And for the FPGA, as indicated in the question: Does or did it run CP/M to do something useful? (Otherwise you could just scale this up by using a faster FPGA, and then again another, even faster FPGA, and so on). | |
| Sep 20, 2018 at 0:46 | comment | added | DrSheldon | The questioner asked for systems that run CP/M. Do either of these computers do that? Also, a link to the first system you mentioned would be helpful. Otherwise, than you for the answer! | |
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| Sep 20, 2018 at 0:14 | history | answered | Alan Cox | CC BY-SA 4.0 |