Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Exegete <millers@noneofyourbusiness.com>]

wildstar128 wrote:
> "Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not> wrote in message
> news:rwMW9.248$PR3.80077062@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
>
> > Exegete wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Few people would run and and spend $3,000 for an IBM PC/XT just so
> > > they could run CP/M - esp. since they had to buy extra hardware in
> > > order to be able to do that.
> >
> > Actually, no, they didn't. There was a native version of CP/M for the PC.
>
> It
>
> > was called -- now get this -- "CP/M-86 for the IBM PC." IBM, they sure
>
> were
>
> > creative at naming things, weren't they? ;)
> >
> > Of course, if they wanted to run any of the hundreds of CP/M-80 progams,
> > then yes, you are correct; they would have had to buy a coprocessor card.
> > Much like the Z-80 cards available for the ][.
>
>
> Wasn't that later known as DR-DOS. 

No

The makers of CP/M-86 made a later made
> something called DR-DOS.

Yes.

And it ran MS-DOS software, not CP/M software.

Roy




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