Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["wildstar128" <wildstar128@hotmail.com>]

"Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not> wrote in message
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> 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. The makers of CP/M-86 made a later made
something called DR-DOS.