'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

CP/M was updated to CP/M 86 and CP/M 68. It was then updated to GEMDOS. DR 
wrote a windowing system called GEM. SOme PC applications used it. The 
Atari ST adopted GEM and GEMDOS. Actually, they later came out with DR-DOS, 
which is still sold today by Caldera.
Ken Ambrose wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> > In Redmond's favor, any GUI is going to be somewhat of a memory hog.
> 
> My first Amiga, the A-1000, a truly GUI/multitasking box, came stock with
> 256K RAM, and ran fine.  I got the add'l 256K so I could have a RAM disk.
> ;-)  In other words, a GUI doesn't necessarily require memory hoggishness,
> though it certainly does seem par for the course.
> 
> As for IBM and the 68K -- one of the initial PC specs was backward CP/M
> compatibility.  The 8088 seemed a logical choice to fulfill this
> unfulfilled "feature:" everything the 8080 was, and faster, to boot.
> While I imagine that there were probably a few CP/M emulators for 68K
> boxen, they a) probably didn't work that well, and b) the 68K itself, in
> '81, probably cost a small fortune.
> 
> -Ken
> 
> 

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