Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!rehmi From: rehmi@umcp-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Why Apple CP/M Message-ID: <670@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Jul-83 14:31:20 EDT Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.670 Posted: Sat Jul 9 14:31:20 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jul-83 04:52:28 EDT References: <3842@tucc.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 19 Why not take this a step farther and ask "Why Cp/m"? Why are there still billyuns and billyuns of people out there who insist it is an operating system? For god's sake, why does everybody want to keep the z80 around for another umpteen years? Don't give me that garbage that it would be too costly to upgrade a business to a 16-bit system, for the new system running a real OS (read Unix) would pay for itself quite quickly in being far faster and more usable. How many people out there actually realize what the origins of cp/m are? Watching micros and their users getting left in the dust, -Rehmi- -- By the fork, spoon, and exec of The Great Basfour. Arpa: rehmi@umcp-cs.udel-relay Uucp:...{allegra,seismo}!umcp-cs!rehmi