Gene Wirchenko wrote:

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:53:44 -0600, GreyCloud
wrote:

[snip]

The real problem is computing stagnation. Even HPs CEO recognizes this
and
is trying to do something about this. Kind of reminds me of the 70s and
CP/M and S-100 boxes. That market stagnated as well. When IBM came out
with something new, the PC, the CP/M almost died overnight.

Ah, no. The Z-80 had been taken about as far as it could go with
general-purpose systems. That is why the IBM pc took over.


There were 8086 CP/M computers just before IBM came out with their PC.
I remember the one in Seattle that Bill Gates bought out.
That's why in the beginning there was MS dos and CP/M for the IBM PC.