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@stevelord I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that CP/M runs in 64k of RAM. I don't think Linux from scratch or any of the BSDs come close to this. I messed with computers in the 80's but had forgotten how little they had to work with, and they were quite responsive. I'm going to try CP/M on bare metal on a Pi next week. I want to dig into this stuff a bit because it is really neat. I might ask for some help.
@daniel @stevelord yet we must acknoledge that Linux does "a little more things" than CP/M or #AmigaOs and C64 #GEOS. Ps: I used GEOS and I was a "diehard" Amiga fan
Never forget, we put two men on the moon with 8k of memory 🤘😎🤘
Also (and I have a couple of these, not counting the spare motherboards I have as well), the original #IBM 5150 PC had a 64k motherboard, and a #DIN connector for a cassette deck that you could load programs from and save to, running the #ROM BASIC operating environment if you didn't happen to purchase either #Gary Kildall's CP/M or #Tim Paterson's IBM PC DOS v1.01
Here's a couple of my all time fav quotes:
"IBM wanted CP/M prompts. It made me throw up." - Tim Paterson, creator of MS-DOS.
And...
"Ask Bill why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that." - Dr. Gary Kildall.
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