2 Aug
2002
2 Aug
'02
12:07 p.m.
I thought it was an 8085. I believe there was CP/M for the
displaywriter, and I remember seeing a flyer about a DOS upgrade, though
I dpon't know if it ever materialised.
On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Jim Kearney wrote:
M. K. Peirce
Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island
"Casta est quam nemo rogavit."
- Ovid
No, the
original Display writers were dedicated word processors. FWIW
IBM later sold
software for the PC that emulated the Display writer. As you
might guess it was called Display Write.
Not totally dedicated. IBM sold a port of the UCSD Pascal OS, and some apps
such as LogiCalc and some accounting software. Somewhere I think I might
have a brochure. This would have been around 1982(?). My recollection is
that it was an 8086, and the PC drew more than a little from its design.
Jim