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Re: MS SoftCard = most popular CP/M platform?

Subject: Re: MS SoftCard = most popular CP/M platform?
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 07 May 2011 23:09:18 +0200
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On 05/07/2011 06:51 PM, N.N. Thayer wrote:
> http://www.voteview.com/gates.htm
> 
> "It ran CP/M on the Apple and was a highly successful product for a
> time. Indeed, the SoftCard was the single most popular platform to run
> CP/M!"
> 
> An add-on for the Apple II ended up being a more popular CP/M platform
> than any of the systems that ran it natively?

Probably that was because the market for CP/M machines was so
fragmented. See here:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_machines_running_CP/M

-- 
Linards Ticmanis

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- MS SoftCard = most popular CP/M platform?
  - From: "N.N. Thayer" <nnthayer@hotmail.com>

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