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From: terry@wsccs.UUCP (terry)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: The New Chips
Message-ID: <186@wsccs.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 08:35:26 GMT
References: <1157@microsoft.UUCP> <2037@codas.att.com> <864@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
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Summary: Whoops?

In article <864@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>, ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown) writes:
> In article <2037@codas.att.com> karthur@codas.att.com (Kurt_R_Arthur) writes:
> }MS-DOS 1.0 was a d*mn good clone of CP/M, too. A friend purchased an original
> }IBM PC (16k!) when it first came out.  We got WordStar up and running under
> }DOS 1.0 by changing a _single_ byte from a CP/M version.  What may be even
> }more amazing is the fact we had a legal copy of WordStar!
> 
> I'll say it's amazing, since the 8080/Z80 has completely different opcodes 
> from the 808x!  I don't suppose your legal copy happened to be source? :-)

	I couldn't help noticing... doesn't the pattern '808x' match the
string '8080'?  It seems to me that the '68000' would then be excluded from
the group '680x0', thereby invalidating a number of Motorolla 'data books' :-).


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