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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Liars
Message-ID: <2748@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Nov-87 15:00:24 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2748
Posted: Thu Nov 12 15:00:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Nov-87 14:47:31 EST
References: <4417@well.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <4417@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) says:
> In article <1498@unicus.UUCP> craig@unicus.UUCP (Craig D. Hubley) writes:
>>And it might stop this business of lying to novice users about their
>> wonderful new computers, which every major computer company has been guilty
>> of. (including Commodore, when Tramiel was president - remember C64 CP/M?)

> 	Hey.  I've got the CP/M cartridge with software for the C-64, and it
> works great.  It's slower than death by old age, but it works....

C64 CP/M was a white lie, or a partial truth.  It did work, but it only
worked reliably with REV 5 VIC II chips.  Not all that long after the CP/M
cartridge was introduced, the REV 7 chip started shipping, and timing on it
had changed enough to kill the CP/M cartridge in most systems.

And Leo exaggerates.  It was FAR slower than he implied.

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