3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
5:08 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
I'm pretty sure that was the intention, though Bil
Herd "accidentally"
designed the Z80 into the motherboard as a way of getting around having
to make the 128 compatible with the CP/M 2.2 cartridge.
I was never a C128 user, nor were there a lot of them in our local
Commodore user group. In general, though, how common was CP/M usage
among the C128 crowd? Was it too little, too late by then? I
remember watching my boss in 1984 use a CP/M card in his Apple II for
business apps (mostly spreadsheets), but I don't remember personally
seeing anyone running CP/M after that summer - it was all DOS for
business and random brands of native 8-bit machines for fun. One Mac
- owned by our senior programmer at that same company - the first Mac
I ever saw, and probably the only 128K Mac I ever saw in the wild
because everyone gobbled up the 512K model when it came out.
-ethan