Re: Apple and the Holy War

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <2OMT4.1497$W45.3347@newsfeed.slurp.net>,
Forrest <bctimes@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> Somewhere, pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:
..................... 
> Okay, in that case AW has a line limit of ~1,000,000 characters.  Thought you 
> meant logical display width.
> 
>> Perhaps I should also remind you that, to me, CP/M was the OS I did
>> my serious stuff on, on the Apple II.
> 
> Pity the TRS-80 Model II didn't come out earlier; by the specifications,
> it would've suited you better.
 
I don't think so -- one thing I truly liked about CP/M was that it's
not single-platform, it's multi-platform.  All other microcomputer
OS'es of that time were single-platform only.  The advantage of a
multiplatform OS is the ability to exchange files with people running
other platforms, if they run the same multiplaform OS, that is.  And
one practical obstacle had to be overcome: there were some 100+
different disk formats used by various CP/M machines.
 
 
>> Because DOS 3.2 imposed an
>> upper limit of 32000 bytes on any file - including text files !!!
> 
> Which had a one-byte fix if I recall correctly...but I don't think Apple 
> bothered to issue any notification about it, or a patch.
 
It was fixed in DOS 3.3, where one TS list could chain into another one,
if needed.
 
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