3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
5:29 p.m.
On 1/3/2012 9:29 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
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.
And it was a copy:
http://www.softwolves.com/arkiv/cbm-hackers/2/2711.html
My theory is that CBM Marketing wanted to tout business capabilities,
and so the edict went out to design a CP/M cart. Given that the issue
is somewhat esoteric, I won't fault the designer, but I suspect he/she
did not think this was a useful product.
Jim
--
Jim Brain
brain at jbrain.com
www.jbrain.com
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.