Re: [OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"
On 2011/04/03 02:17, Alan Cox wrote:
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:20:57 -0700
Joe Zeff<joe(a)zeff.us> wrote:
> On 04/02/2011 06:51 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>> I
>> mean, one can still make some nonzero use of, say, an ancient 286 machine
>> running MS-DOS, for example.
>
> A friend of mine is heavily involved in Packet Radio. Most of the
> stations are still run by software running on CP/M. And, before you
> ask, they're not using emulators, they're using honest to Ghod Z80 hardware.
Still lots of Z80 based ones around in the UK too where the protocol work
is done on a magic box on a serial port - never seen anything running
CP/M however, the stuff I've seen all runs raw on the hardware.
The bigger nodes have however all been surplanted by Linux 8)
It's not about being ancient though - the Z80 happens to have exactly the
right bits easily available for doing packet radio.
In the US, at least, I suspect you may find a fair number of C64s
in use by hams.
{^_^}