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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Debugger running on Tandy 1200
Keywords: Turbo, debugger, Tandy
Message-ID: <6262@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 31 Oct 89 16:36:06 GMT
References: <2873@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1286@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <1286@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu> wozniak@utkux1.cs.utk.edu (Bryon Lape) writes:
> The problem may be in (or with) your machine.  The 1200 was considered
>a graphics machine (non-standard), but I am not totally familiar with
>it.  I know that their are several programmes that will not run on the
>1000 line of computers, so you may have found another one.  This
>sometimes the price that is paid for non-standard equipment.

Whoa there!  The 1200 was a near-perfect PC/XT clone. The 1000 was/is a 
completely different computer, originally intended as a PC/Jr clone. In fact
it was much more PC compatable than the real Jr. The non-standard "graphics"
machine was the 2000, Tandy's first MS-DOS machine. They did that when they
thought the keyword was "MS-DOS" rather than "PC Compatible", thus it was
a superior machine that couldn't run any PC programs that used other than
MS-DOS system calls, nor could it accept any PC hardware.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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