On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 16:43:46 -0400 Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote:
[snip] > I hated CP/M [snip] It was nearly indistinguishable from DOS, or DOS was nearly indistinguishable from it, depending upon ones perspective. > The other rooms had old Apple [before Macs] and they had > CP/M OS options, ... [snip] No, they didn't. Early Apple PCs ran the MOS Technologies (later: Mostek) 6502. CP/M never ran on anything but the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80. (And only on the latter because it was a superset of the former.) Eventually, Kildall realized the 8-bit processors' days were numbered (duh) and created CP/M-86, but, by then, it was way, way too late. The shame of Kildall's mistake was that going from the 8080 to the 8086 instruction set would have been a boringly trivial exercise, since the 8086/8088 family was essentially an 8080 on steroids. > > Those were the days of the early home PC market and the beginning > of a PC in every home idea. Before them, most home computer > devices were toys. People did some truly useful things with those "toys." My "toy" computer ran inventory and purchasing control for the company for which I worked, at the time ;) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
