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From: josephc@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Joseph I. Chiu)
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Subject: Re: When will the 8088 die?
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Date: 13 Dec 90 10:30:49 GMT
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garyt@ios.Convergent.COM (Gary Tse) writes:

>gary@dvnspc1.Dev.Unisys.COM (Gary Barrett) writes:
>|The longer DOS lasts in its current
>|form, the more applications people will purchase for it (the more
>|money they will have invested in software versus "the box".)  
>|
>|So those same people are going to look at their piles of applications
>|and consider this new and wonderful DOS and say "so what".  

>Gee, does anyone here still remember CP/M or Apple DOS?

Funny, I played with my Apple II just a few days ago (I don't live with my
folks anymore, and I have an IBM at school), and I'm teaching my sister
wordprocessing with Wordstar on CP/M (Applicard CP/M card - a product that 
had a lot more potential than it was used for - a 6 MHz coprocessor that
ran concurrently with the Apple because it had its own 64k memory)


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