17 Apr
2007
17 Apr
'07
9:14 p.m.
And that's my point. This is a Classic Computer list, yet no one on the
There is a _very_ big difference between being unable to answer a
question and not being bothered to answer a question.
list is able to respond to this guy's Kaypro 10
question. Perhaps the
question was obscure, but this is truly the playground of obscurity. I
I think you're being unreasonable here. I don't know how many different
models of computer have been made in the 'classic period', but it must be
10's of thousands at least. Do you seriosuly think that given a machine,
at least one person here must have experience of it?
would venture that 10 years ago Dodd's post would
have received at least
a few responses, as there were a lot of CP/Mers then on the list. They
seem to have mostly moved on, and the composition of the list has
changed. That's not necessarily a good or bad thing - but it is change.
I am not sure anything can, or should, be done about this.
At one point in time I would have ventured that 70-90%
of the list had
some sort of CP/M machine, but I bet that number is now well south of
50%.
Actually, I suspect many people here have a CP/M machine. For all I don't
much care for CP/M, I have many machines that can run it (including Epson
laptops, an Epson QX10, DEC Rainbow, TRS-80 M4, and so on).
However, that deosn't mean anyone has experience with a probably quite
uncommon 3rd party ROM in one particular machine.
TO go back to that 'linux question', it's a question that is not really
linux speciific. The same question -- and answer -- applies to any unix
system. Suppose, the CP/M question had been 'how to I convert an Intel
HEX file to a CP/M binary'. I'll bet a dozen people would give the
answer.
Conversely, if you anked something less generic about a linux system
(like : how do I modify the kernel to use a Catweasel card as its only
floppy controller), you'd probably not get an answer.
-tony