Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA From: ACB.COR@OFFICE-1.ARPA (Alan Bomberger) Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Is CP/M dead Message-ID: <2511@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 12:25:41 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2511 Posted: Mon Oct 28 12:25:41 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:31:38 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 18 I join those who believe in CP/M. Not that it is the greatest etc, but because it is functional, simple, and predictable. I have done some rather sophisitcated things for CP/M including POP UP windows and ThinkTank like things. But people are killing it. The users are killing it. How? Simple. As a commercial CP/M developer and vendor I find that it is nearly impossible to find any publication read by the "2 million" CP/M users. While there are many publications that CP/M users read most of them are dominated by "IBM" users. Advertising rates are based on total circulation and thus advertising for the 3% of the CP/M readers is prohibitive. This applies to distributors as well who must examine their advertising costs. So since the publishers killed off the likes of Microsystems there is no central place to advertise new CP/M software. I am sorry if that sounds like a very commercial reason and I would surely appreciate feedback. I find it frustrating. CP/M users should rally behind some publication and boost its readership to 500,000 CP/M readers. That ought to create the atmosphere for developers to reach the "2 million" users.