[HN Gopher] LokiOS. A new version of CP/M 2.2, written from Scratch
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       LokiOS. A new version of CP/M 2.2, written from Scratch
        
       Author : JPLeRouzic
       Score  : 8 points
       Date   : 2023-02-28 20:46 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | lockhouse wrote:
       | CP/M is a bit before my time, but why was it so wildly popular
       | compared to its contemporaries? Was there any technical reason or
       | was it just available and easy to license for the different
       | microcomputers that came to market at the time?
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       | It's interesting that some of CP/M's underlying ideas are part of
       | Windows 11 today, such as drive letters.
        
         | mistrial9 wrote:
         | the collection of hardware parts in those days was really
         | different. I imagine that simply disposing of the dependencies
         | on a hundred "standard" parts of a modern PC motherboard in the
         | source code, is a win. So it is not better to go back to CP/M
         | for some architectural reason, it is a win to get-rid-of the
         | intrusive and bulky, and patented, parts in modern OS.
        
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