On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:05:49PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:07:35PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> 
> > Crap, there's a pip program on CPM?
> > 
> > What does it do?
> 
> It is the Peripheral Interchange Program.  The Unix equivalent would be
> cp, I suppose.
> 
> > I did google around a bit, and I thought I'd gotten everything.
> > 
> > And what is CPM? :)
> 

Think pre-Commodore 64 Commodore.  Actually, you could get CP/M for the
Commodore 64, but I don't know of anyone who ever did.

> I should really have written CP/M (Control Program/Monitor), an
> operating system from which MS-DOS took many ideas, and one of the few
> operating systems to which perl hasn't been ported, as far as I know.
> 
> Now someone will tell me perl has been ported to CP/M (I hope).  But
> even if anyone is still using CP/M, I doubt they're going to be
> installing even six year old software.
> 

Installing Perl on a 25+ year old might be a nice upgrade...if the 
hardware could handle it. ;)


Steve Peters
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