17 Apr
2007
17 Apr
'07
3:47 p.m.
Wayne Smith wrote:
At one point in time I would have ventured that 70-90%
of the list had
some sort of CP/M machine, but I bet that number is now well south of
50%.
You're taking your generalization right out of the ball-park.
"Disinterested" probably comes off as a bit
too negative. People aren't
really distinterested per se, the current composition of the list just
isn't focused on these types of machines. Perhaps it would have been
better to say "bewildered silence".
The response to any query on this list depends on the rarity of the
hardware, the level of past experience with that hardware (a lot of
listers have worked with systems they don't currently own), the clarity
and amount of detail in the question, whether there's a tasty flame war
ongoing, and the positions of the moon, Mars, and Uranus.
I've asked questions here and gotten dead silence; asked the same
question again in a few weeks and gotten lots of response and several
solutions. Trying to make something of that or draw some conclusion
from it is Not Right.
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