3 Jan
2012
3 Jan
'12
12:05 p.m.
On 3 January 2012 05:08, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Cameron Kaiser
<spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
> 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.
Blimey. That seems like a lot of work!
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?
Not high, AIUI, from a little Googling.
Was it too little, too late by then?
Yup!
But also, I th
?I
remember watching my boss in 1984 use a CP/M card in
his Apple II for
business apps (mostly spreadsheets), but I don't remember personally
seeing anyone running CP/M after that summer - it was all DOS for
business and random brands of native 8-bit machines for fun. ?One Mac
- owned by our senior programmer at that same company - the first Mac
I ever saw, and probably the only 128K Mac I ever saw in the wild
because everyone gobbled up the 512K model when it came out.
-ethan
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