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js2
on June 21, 2013
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A useful program, 0 bytes long
Tangent: just to give an idea how popular WordStar was, my Apple ][ had a CP/M coprocessor card [1] just so we could run WordStar.
[1] manufactured by Microsoft -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard
zwieback
on June 21, 2013
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Me too, the other CP/M programs I ran a lot on my (knockoff) Z80 card were TurboPascal and f80, the Microsoft Fortan compiler. It always felt like a tiny betrayal running Z80 code, though, I was a 6502 man through and through.
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[1] manufactured by Microsoft - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_SoftCard