[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

[jdow]

On 2011/04/03 02:17, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.

In the US, at least, I suspect  you may find a fair number of C64s
in use by hams.

{^_^}