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Paolo Amoroso
Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

Nemanja Trifunovic revisits the story of why IBM went with MS-DOS instead of CP/M and discusses one important detail: why the 8086 port of CP/M was late and how much this influenced what followed.

https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/the-late-arrival-of-16-bit-cpm?utm_medium=web

#cpm #cpm86 #retrocomputing

The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M

How CP/M 2.2’s Success Delayed the 8086 Port — and Whether It Really Mattered
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