On Monday October 25 2004 11:17 pm, Allen wrote:
Most of you don't even know that there was CP/M running an NCR video chipset providing 16 colors, and then we had 256 color support.....MickySoft had just started to ship Winders then. 'Had IBM only been smart enough to take a long look at the modified KayPros, Gates might have drifted off into obscurity where he deserved to be.
Fred
I've used CP/M sort of. I had a shell account on a box that was suing a CP/M emulator or something similar. It's just what gave birth too DOS anyway ;) If MickySoft is Microsoft, does that make That place in Washington Disneyland?
If Kerry wins, it'll be MUCH WORSE than that. :) CP/M was, IMHO, a MUCH better OS than MessyDOS ever was. Fred -- "Running Windows on a Pentium is like getting a Porsche but only being able to drive it in reverse with the handbrake on."