I'm pretty
sure that was the intention, though Bil Herd "accidentally"
designed the Z80 into the motherboard as a way of getting around having
to make the 128 compatible with the CP/M 2.2 cartridge.
I was never a C128 user, nor were there a lot of them in our local
Commodore user group. In general, though, how common was CP/M usage
among the C128 crowd? Was it too little, too late by then?
Not very common. The local Commodore user group I was a member of had a
CP/M section in their newsletter, but it was never demoed much at meetings,
and I think I used it a grand total of twice. It was fun to explore, though.
C128 native mode, on the other hand, was awesome. Too bad not much exploited
that either.
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