17 Apr
2018
17 Apr
'18
1:18 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, allison via cctalk wrote:
Part of that too was because MS-DOS provided CP/M programming interfaces,
so in many ways it was CP/M with a bag on the side...
Warner
Looked at 8086 and decided it was a 8080 with a
bag on the side.
It was and still is irrational.
OTOH, Micropro had 8080 originated Wordstar running on the 5150 in weeks.
It took them longer to edit the manuals than to port the code.
Likewise Supercalc, etc.