[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 19:20:57 -0700
Joe Zeff <joe at 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