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.
Alan