a bit of trivia I found interesting

[Alex Snow]

And if you got the z80 card for an apple II you could run cp/m on the apple.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at mhonline.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: a bit of trivia I found interesting


> There were versions of CP/M for a number of early processors,
> including the Intel 8080, the Zilog Z80, and the Motorola 68000,
> plus probably some others. Each of those processors also
> supported other operating systems as well, though none of them
> was a popular as CP/M, which stood for "Control Program for
> Microprocessors."
>
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, dashielljt wrote:
>
> > If a Z80 processor is a CP/M processor, will someone please explain why
> > whenever anyone uses a CP/M operating system the operating system has to
> > be loaded from a floppy or hard drive?
> >
> > Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>
> >
> >
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