Re: Mercury

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	alt.unix.geeks, comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Mercury
Date	2026-04-05 22:02 +0000
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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.

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