13 Jan
2014
13 Jan
'14
10:11 p.m.
On 01/13/2014 04:00 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
the C128, because obviously what C64 owners
wanted was a Z80 and CP/M. (!)
From what I recall the story of the C128 went something
like they needed
something to control the MMU before the 6510 startup (or something
like
that - wetware RAM is sucky) and the Z80 from a TS/1000 was available,
so was hacked in. CP/M was just a positive side effect. IMO, had they
gone with an 8086 and DOS compatibility, they would have done much, much
better as PCs were starting to take over by that time.