Steve Peters wrote:
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.
Nothing to do with Commodore, it was written by Digital Research (which
was eventually swallowed up by Novell). It's now free-as-in-beer software.
The C64 version required a Z80 or 8080 second processor, I assume.
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.
I terminated my last CP/M client's contract (well, I didn't let them
renew) last month. But yeah, they've not run any new software in the
last twelve years. They went live today with their new PC-based system.
They've not yelled for help yet so I assume it went OK :-)
Installing Perl on a 25+ year old might be a nice upgrade...if the
hardware could handle it. ;)
Funny you should mention that ...
A few days ago at the London Perl Mongers, we did talk a little bit
about porting perl 1 to CP/M. Apparently the source code is K&R C, not
ANSI, which is good cos I have K&R compilers for CP/M ...
Sadly, I doubt it's really possible. Perl makes far too many Unixy
assumptions.
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David Cantrell
