5 Nov
2007
5 Nov
'07
10:19 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Really, there's no reason that a PC should lag
behind a 1980's
terminal that used a lowly 4MHz Z80.
With a Z80 you had to write your own OS.
There was *No* need for that in the 1980's other than *Pushing*
8080 to 8086 conversion as way to get *quick* software to the market
place.
Cheers,
Chuck
Thinks the people who invented BASIC with slowed down computer
development by centuries.