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Re: A very basic printing question re XY3

** Reply to message from Harry Binswanger  on
Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:45:19 -0500


> Okay, what mainframe program was CP/M based on?

CP/M (Control Program/Monitor) was an operating system that ran
on Intel 8080 machines (although I ran Z80 boxes, which
understood the instruction set). Oh, you mean, "based
on"=derived from? The ancestral model? Why, IBM's CP/CMS, of
course! Gee, Harry...

> when you want to turn off the 8th bit, what is the switch for use
> with PIP?

The power switch?

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