10 Oct
2006
10 Oct
'06
4:29 p.m.
On 10/10/2006 at 11:24 PM ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk wrote:
Think of what came before the IBM PC -- CP/M machines.
Those had wildly
differnt hardware (some had memory mapped video, some used a serial
terminal, for example), and yet a lot of software would run on just about
any CP/M box with fairly minor configuration.
I think it's odd that most of the CP/M software that I've encountered that
requires a Z80 CPU (and not, say, an 8080/8085) was written in the twilight
of the CP/M 8-bit systems, after the PC had made its debut.
Cheers,
Chuck