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!Burton.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA From: Burton.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm Subject: Re: Is CP/M Dead (or) Turbo buy fun Message-ID: <2516@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 13:40:44 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.2516 Posted: Mon Oct 28 13:40:44 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 22:32:21 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 19 Dave, I think you're pretty much right, at least for us unrepentant and unreconstructed hackers. But for my wife, DOS is better, because the bigger memory space of a 16 bit system makes for "friendlier" programs. And my wife is part of that great mass market that will buy a machine with 3 initials on it because they feel good about those three initials (beats me why, with Compupro's around, but that's another story). Even CP/M 86, had it caught on, would have been better than CP/M 80 for this reason. If Gary Kildall made only one mistake, it was in putting work into an 8-bit operating system, and not the 16 -bit version. Thus, he wasn't ready when IBM *wanted* to use CP/M 86. Sigh ... Phil Burton