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?
Certainly CBM was pretty good at "too little, too late." When I acquired
my C-64 in 1984 or so, I spent too much for the CP/M cartridge, and I rarely
used it. I, like CBM, thought it would widely expand what software
I might run. Didn't turn out that way.
The CP/M 2.2 cartridge was sort of a microcosm of pointless, though. Paired
with the GCR-only 1541 it was a wonderful CP/M machine that could run exactly
zero existing software packages (without conversion), and the 2.2 cartridge
was notably fussy about which hardware revisions it would work with (hence
Bil's unconventional solution in the 128's design). At least the 128 had the
1571 that could read various MFM format disks directly, but as you say, too
little, too late.
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