From: rswenson484@yahoo.com   
      
   "David Librik"  wrote in message   
   news:h6fmpu$noa$1@reader1.panix.com...   
   > "Robert Swenson"  writes:   
   >>I just wish they put a little more into the Model I - it was supposed to   
   >>have an S100 bus and run CP/M.   
   >   
   > I don't see how this would have been an improvement.  The third-party   
   > TRS-80 DOSes were far superior to CP/M, and the S/100 bus was just the   
   > 1975 Altair pinout standardized.  I think the TRS-80 (and the Apple)   
   > were both steps up from the old CP/M S-100 systems like the Imsai or Sol.   
   >   
   > It's significant there were both S/100 and CP/M adapters for the TRS-80,   
   > but they didn't exactly fly off the shelves.  Who needs it?   
   >   
   > Then again, I've used both CP/M and MS/DOS, and always believed it was   
   > a good thing that Gary Kildall was out flying.  But it would have been   
   > even better if IBM had talked to Apparat.   
   >   
   > - David Librik   
   > librik@panix.com   
      
   True, L-DOS and New-DOS 80 were superior, but CP/M had a much bigger   
   software library.. I wonder if the publishers of those OS's could have   
   extended CP/M in the same way they did TRS-DOS?   
      
   An expansion chassis would have allowed the Model I to be upgraded much   
   easier than the expansion interface. We could have had 80 column cards,   
   color graphics, memory above 48k, maybe even different CPU's. It would have   
   greatly extended the life of the Model I/III/IV line.   
      
   Radio Shack had a four year lead on IBM. If they had a slightly better   
   machine with better marketing, there might not have been an IBM PC. The   
   8-bit Z80 could have been replaced with a 16-bit version a couple years   
   later and eventually 32-bit and 64-bit versions.   
      
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