On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 2:14 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2018, allison via cctalk wrote:
>
>> Looked at 8086 and decided it was a 8080 with a bag on the side.
>> It was and still is irrational.
>>
>
> OTOH, Micropro had 8080 originated Wordstar running on the 5150 in weeks.
> It took them longer to edit the manuals than to port the code.
> Likewise Supercalc, etc.
>

Part of that too was because MS-DOS provided CP/M programming interfaces,
so in many ways it was CP/M with a bag on the side...

Warner

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