Native CP/M

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Apr 12 05:17:59 2002

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Tony Duell wrote:

> > > Now admittedly I've moaned that 'for IBM compatibles' should mean it'll
> > > run on an 8088 with 640K of RAM and either an MDA or CGA card, but these
> > > days that's unlikely to be the case :-(
> > >
> > What? You mean it won't run on a 7090?
>
> I've often been tempted to complain that the PC product I've just bought
> doesn't work with my 370-compatible. After all, that box is compatible
> with _an_ IBM system. :-)

IBM-compatible with DOS used to mean compatible with IBM mainframes
running DOS/VSE. *sigh*

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Apr 12 2002 - 05:17:59 BST