OP. Are you time traveling? That would be official only later...
Probably not if he's wanting CP/M. Time travelers prefer APL.
Can I borrow the IBN? Please? I promise I'll return it...
Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
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Re: Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
#32Related question: What “new” CP/M machines can be bought today? The closest I know is this kit: https://rc2014.co.uk/ Any others that can be bought off the shelf today?
There are quite a few single-board computers out there that appear on tindie, etc. Usually people design a board, get it up and running, sell it for a few months or years then it dies off.
RC2014 has been quite long-lived by contrast, I guess having the various extensions/addons helps encourage people to keep tinkering with it.
I bought a single-board Z80-based system a few months back, and I guestimate there are about 50 of those specific boards in existence - but it doesn't matter too much how many of a specific board exist, so long as the CP/M archives continue to be maintained a new design isn't so hard to create.
Re: Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
#33OP, I’m super curious as to what inspired you to ask.
I’m planning to write a text based social network for vintage computing enthusiasts, for CP/M. It’ll be written in Turbo Pascal. It’s my path to $2B. Don’t tell anyone my idea.
Great. Time to buy up a working Osborne 1, then I can be 14 all over again.
Re: Ask HN: Are impressive new programs being written for CP/M?
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> why hasn't someone built a system out of an Arduino that can self host compilers, editors, file systems, and allows you to do code development on a serial terminal or a "PC console" like device? Mainly because Arduinos only have 2K of RAM. You could certainly connect up extra RAM chips to the digital I/O pins, but I'm not convinced there is any way to ask the ATmega328 to use this as extra memory, and even if there…
I give you the BASIC Stamp[1] a BASIC environment on a chip with 25 BYTES of RAM. And the SPI RAM chip[2] (8 megabytes off a SPI port). I built a simple PDP-11/20 emulator (not cycle accurate) that used the Atmega chip and a couple of FRAMs for 'core'. At 16MHz it ran faster than the PDP-11/20 did when it was built, and the 11/20 ran RT-11. Basically this is a detailed way of saying that perhaps you perceive limitati…
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