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Subject: [OM] Re: What would you do? Now: Horse racing and dog. Well sort of . . .
From: Manuel Viet <oly@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:19:30 +0100
Le jeudi 30 Novembre 2006 03:14, Allan Mee a écrit :
> Oddly enough I used to be a programmer writing for CP/M in the early 80's -
> it was a good OS (given it was designed for 8 bit processors with 64Kb or
> less of RAM). Had IBM gone for CPM86 or the even better MPM and maybe DR's
> GEM - it is possible that today's PCs would be considerably better (as it's
> likely that a 'flat' memory model would have been developed and used much
> earlier etc.

> >From: John Hudson <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >" It was an
> >unsophisticated program that didn't instill much confidence in users, yet
> >it was a major contributor to the personal computer revolution."

As the popular sense know, history is written by the winners.

-- 
Manuel Viet
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