Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[Bruce Tomlin <bruceNS+usenet12@fanboy.net>]

In article <b0duh2$199v$1@merope.saaf.se>,
 pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

> Depends on WHICH version of CP/M you wanted to use.  Although you
> needed extra hardware to run CP/M-80 on the IBM PC, CP/M-86 ran on it
> without extra hardware.  The early IBM PC offered a choice of three

If only the V20/V30 chips had implemented the Z-80 relative jumps, then 
their 8080 mode would actually have been useful.  Why?  Because of Turbo 
Pascal.  That's the only Z-80 feature that it used, to help reduce code 
size.  Both the compiler and anything compiled with it require a Z-80 to 
run.