27 Jan
2021
27 Jan
'21
5:40 p.m.
On 1/27/21 10:47 AM, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:11:26PM +1100, Dave
Horsfall wrote:
Neither did mine
I had an original Altair 8800 I had built and started with CP/M
2.2 then upgraded to 3.0 and wrote my
own bios and flashed into a prom board I had built from kit. Computers were sure
a lot simpler in those days.
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Ben Franklin)
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Ugh! I've seen some ugly windowing systems
in my time, but X... Heck, even
CP/M had a better system, IIRC.
CP/M didn't have a window system, at least
mine didn't. Hard to do that
in 64K (I had 128K banked with the crt mapped into the 2nd bank).