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Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 6:27 pm Post subject: Technological Stagnation - was Re: Re: Transponder for sale |
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:20:20 -0500
"Robert L. Nuckolls, III" <nuckolls.bob(at)cox.net> wrote:
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Quote: | While Gates and IBM are capable of adding value to
their products . . . regulation only ADDS cost.
If Gates and IBM had the same hurdles to cross as
manufacturers of products for aviation, we'd still be
running 20 MHz 486 machines under CP/M for 3 to 10x
the cost of a current off-the-shelf CPU.
Bob . . .
CP/M ran just fine on the 8080 and Z80 chips so it's doubtful the
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8086 or any of the other advanced processors would have made it past
the paperwork.
Bob W.
(I still have a CP/M machine that was working the last time I turned it
on - about 10 years ago.)
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