Re: Z-RAM for IIc: install questions

[dockery@griffin.cuc.ab.ca (Sean Dockery)]

sebugg@CS1.PRESBY.EDU wrote the following article:

My Z-RAM ULTRA II came with a installation/configuration disk.  As it did
not host a Z-80 CPU, including utilities for activating a non-existing Z-80
CPU on the card would have been rather silly.  :-)

| What is the difference between Z-80 and CP/M?   There is a Z-80 
| beneath the ram board; also the manual does state that CP/M can
| play.

CP/M is an operating system that runs on a Z-80 CPU, much like ProDOS and
DOS 3.3 run on the 65C02 and 6502 CPUs, respectively.  Using CP/M has the
advantage that it ran on many other hardware architectures, and (because of
that) it has a slough of professional software packages available for it.

If your Z-RAM hosts a Z-80 processor, chances are that your card is a Z-RAM
ULTRA III, not the first incarnation, as you previously stated.  It
probably also has a clock on it, too.

| Will the Apple II accessories such as the Apple Disk ][ drive, Apple ][
| joystick, mouse, etc., work with CP/M?

Certainly.  As long as the programs that you use have support for them.
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