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
