Re: Application Chauvinism

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00

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In article <3s47oa$s9k@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>,
Kyle Anthony York <noesis@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> wrote:
>  (1) a cp/m licence sold for $400 PER MACHINE. tandy was putting out
>      personal computers and needed a cheap/small DOS. TRSDOS used 5K.
>      had cp/m been more reasonably priced, MSDOS probably would not have
>      been born.

True.

>  (2) cp/m required 64K. the base TRSDOS machine was 32K of which 16K was ROM.

False. I've run CP/M in 32K, with a 26K TPA, and if the Trash-80 ran CP/M it
wouldn't have needed that 16K of ROM.
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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/19
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