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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
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Date: 31 May 89 22:48:01 GMT
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In article <9621@polya.Stanford.EDU> shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro) writes:
#>In article <3895@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
#>>I don't know about that. I couldn't see any constructive reason for
#>>including CP/M. If Deitel considers CP/M sufficiently interesting as
#>>an operating system to include it is one of his 6 major examples, his
#>>definition of an operating system leaves something to be desired.
#>
#>Simply on the grounds of the number of machines in the world that have
#>run CP/M, any operating system text that fails to include it and
#>attempts to survey is not doing the job.  CP/M is not fancy, but it
#>served 10's of thousands of people very well for a long time,
#>including some multitasking versions.
#>
#>Let's cool down a bit...
#>
#>Jon

I've still got access to four CP/M machines (2 Kaypros,
a Molecular, and a modified Radio Shack), including
the Kaypro 2 on my desk at home. Admittedly, they are
obsolete, but they still do what I need them for until
I break down and spend $2K or so to get a Mac system
to go with my Mac II at work. So it's hardly accurate
to use the past tense with CP/M.

Steve Goldfield