Sam Gillett wrote:
Exegete wrote ...I was fully aware of CP/M-86, just as I am aware of CP/M-68K. But neither ran the thousands of CP/M-80 programs. So I repeat, you wouldn't run out and spend $3,000 for an IBM PC/XT, just so you could then buy a card that gave you a Z-80 so you could run CP/M.You would want to do exactly that if
*IF*, however, wasn't part of the original, so I still stand by my statement.
AND, if you were a small business, it's unlikely that you would do as you suggest below, as by 1984 or so, all of the best CP/M software had been ported to PC-DOS (like WordStar, dBase, SuperCalc, etc), and DOS had software that was superior to much of what CP/M had (like Lotus 1-2-3). In other words, if you were pinching pennies, you did as I suggested below, if money wasn't a huge problem, you went whole hog into PC-DOS.
you were small business and wanted the
ability to run both MS-DOS applications and your legacy CP/M apps on the same machine.If you wanted to run CP/M, you ran out and spent c. $1,500 on a Kaypro II, and got a library of top notch CP/M software thrown in for free.If you were really pinching pennies you could get a Commodore 128 for $400 and run most Kaypro CP/M software on it.
The fact is that the Kaypro bundle cost less than the retail price of the software alone. As reported in the Whole Earth Software Catalog for 1986, basically Kaypro gave you a pile of quality software at a discount, and threw in the machine for free.
Happy computing, Roy
Best regards,
Sam Gillett aka Mars Probe @ Starship Intrepid 1-972-221-4088
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