Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Mercury Date: 5 Apr 2026 22:02:29 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <1rsoqz0.19zzbh71ebfb7bN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <8f2cnUuvT4KC8lD0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> <8f2cnUqvT4JIKFD0nZ2dnZfqnPgAAAAA@giganews.com> <8f2cnUWvT4L8SFD0nZ2dnZfqnPidnZ2d@giganews.com> <10qr0r9$m4tr$7@dont-email.me> <10qr7eq$obab$3@dont-email.me> <10qtgck$1c39f$5@dont-email.me> <10qtjf3$1c39f$7@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EkCALwR7yX+1TlSx3tXWVQc4hm3DFNRFYuc5RGtQt/W1b3qnhp Cancel-Lock: sha1:cq/ofhc8UTRgR9AXIWBJYq876CA= sha256:qS+ahrf2ND3552kS1XfbNfD9dgYh7eltvpHsaOTFjes= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com alt.unix.geeks:424 comp.os.linux.misc:85431 On Sun, 5 Apr 2026 19:50:19 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote: > Although the Sinclair ZX81 and the Spectrum were almost it. In Spain > there were serious software made for it. For small business. I purchased the ZX81 as a kit of of curiosity. It very much was not 'it' You can't point to a single computer for CP/M. There were many different offerings, including two 'portables', the Osborne and KayPro. There was even a Z80 card for the Apple II so it could run CP/M software. VisiCalc was supposedly Apple's killer app, but SuperCalc on CP/M improved on it and was released shortly after. dBASE II and WordStar both were CP/M programs. Supposedly Kildall was off playing when IBM called and his second in command wouldn't sign off on the NDA or we would have had the superior CP/ M6-86.