Re: [ reactions ] Re: [NYT] Microsoft Is Set to Be Top Foe of Free Code

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From: Joseph S. Barrera III (joe@barrera.org)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 01:14:30 PDT

Also sprach Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de:
> I still wish I'd bought a used CP/M box in 1985 instead of the
> idiot Amstrad CPC-464, and learned programming Forth _properly_.

Hmm. In 1986 I bought an XT clone with 640KB. Even then, a 64KB
address space limit was pretty restrictive. Why would you go for an
8-bit machine in 1985?

- Joe 

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