DOS code in CP/M? Revisited...

Eric Smith spacewar at gmail.com
Fri Jul 15 18:43:21 CDT 2016


On 14 July 2016 at 20:47, Chris Hanson <cmhanson at eschatologist.net> wrote:
> And interestingly, these days IBM is a huge user of Macs… which these days use a derivative of the system architecture that IBM developed!

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> The PC CPU was from Intel, not IBM. Macs now use Intel CPUs.

Yes, the CPU architecture is from Intel. The hardware *system*
architecture is from the IBM PC. That's the main reason why you can
boot Windows on an x86 Mac. (And other PC operating systems.)


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