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>> By the time that the C-128 was introduced, Mess-DOS
>> was already making enroads into the CP/M marketplace. If people wanted
>> to run CP/M, they would run it on an IBM PC by that time.
>
>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.

And if I remember correctly, the street price for the IBM XT was only about
half that in the 1985 time period.  And the clones would soon be only about
half the price of "real IBM" hardware.

As for the extra hardware issue, someone else has already addressed that.
:-)

Best regards,

Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
     Last 8-bit BBS in the Dallas area.  Commodore lives!