17 Sep
2005
17 Sep
'05
8:03 p.m.
On 9/17/2005, Barry Watzman wrote:
Since I'm not aware of any CP/M programs that did
copy protection or any
other type of manipulation that would require an exact disk image, I don't
really see the drawback of this approach.
Excellent point! Since the CP/M world was so fragmented among hardware vendors,
manufacturers wanting to protect their software simply tied it to a specific host hardware
(e.g., SuperCalc 2 special trade-up edition for the Osborne). There may possibly be an
exception for one of the very common platforms, such as TRS-80, but I'm not aware of
one.
Cheers,
Chuck