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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Technical excellence in publishing (or a lack thereof)
Message-ID: <1601@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Sat, 19-Sep-87 01:51:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1601
Posted: Sat Sep 19 01:51:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 12:29:25 EDT
References: <More than you'd want>
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Followup-To: comp.sys.misc || talk.bizarre || alt.flme
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: publications BYTE Dr. Dobb's
Summary: Red unicycles to you, buddy!

In article <707@sugar.UUCP> peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Crap. They care about solutions. IBM legitamized the whole crop of 
>> buisness oriented microcomputers, and made it fit on top of the
>> desk instead of BE the desk, to boot. (no put intended)
>
>Talking about bovine excrement. CP/M had already achieved considerable
>acceptance from the business community. In fact there was a fair amount
>of opposition to the IBM-PC at first because it wasn't CP/M compatible.
>
>IBM legitimised nothing. As usual, they took over an existing market.
>-- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter

But but but...

CP/M was just an operating system. It ran on all sorts or
different hardware, 8080's, Z-80's, 8" drives, 5" drives,
S-100 busses, STD bus ets. 

In other words, the software was pretty standardized (except for the
Z-80 vs 8080 vs 8085 question), but the hardware was wildly divergent.

IBM offered a one-stop solution. It may suck dead gerbils through
a dirty garden hose, but it seems to suit most peoples needs.

(them whats donts need blitters and copper lists that is ;-)

Followups (if any) somewhere else.

-- 
Richard J. Sexton
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