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From: Burton.osbunorth@XEROX.ARPA
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Subject: Re: Is CP/M Dead (or) Turbo buy fun
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Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 13:40:44 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 28 13:40:44 1985
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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