Unknows S-100 System

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Sunday 23 September 2007 09:12, Allison wrote:
> >Subject: Re: Unknows S-100 System
> >   From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at verizon.net>
> >   Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 23:44:57 -0400
> >     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> > <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >
> >On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:35, Barry Watzman wrote:
> >> All commercial software used 8080 instructions,
> >
> >Well,  no.  Two that I know of that did require a z80 were Turbo Pascal
> > and Mix C.
> >
> >--
>
> What I wrote something similar I used the word "most" as I knew there was
> some CP/M software that required z80.  However from a business user
> perspective most of the deireable and likely used software like word
> preocessors, spreadsheets and databases 8080 was just fine save for
> speed and the 8085 solved that.  Also the 8085 was more of a bridge
> than the ultimate application cpu.

Yup,  but the word used there was "all".  :-)

And then there was software that was good enough to test what it had,  and go 
from there...

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