Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["Sam Gillett" <samgillett@msn.com>]

Exegete wrote ...

>> It's true that the C-128 was a hopped-up C-64. But another aspect of
>> the C-128 that *never* took of in the public eye...was that the C-128
>> could run CP/M.
>
>Strange. I wasn't a C-64/128 user, but I read a number of magazines that
>covered a range of computers, and for the C-128, most of the articles I
>read were about CP/M. I suppose that's because you wouldn't write an
>article about the C-128 and talk about C-64 soft/hardware would you? And
>there was so little that I ever saw that was C-128 specific. Again, I
>didn't read Commodore specific periodicals, so I might be a bit off on
>the latter.

There was very little C-128 specific software when the C-128 was first
introduced in 1985, just as there was very little Pentium specific software
when the Pentium was first introduced.  By the late 1980's a lot of C-128
productivity software had appeared.  Also, a lot of C-128 terminal programs
and BBS programs.  Games were the one area of software where the C-128 did
not take off, although a few C-128 specific games did appear.  Most 128
users were content to use the machines C-64 mode to play games, then switch
to 128 mode to use productivity software.