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Il y a un vrai geek qui a remis online des vielles tapes de Usenet de
...1981! sur http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/
Il y a des old-news sur des trucs qu'on trouve netuel maintenant (exitcodes
en C-shell,...) ou des perles comme ca:
Aucbvax.1902 fa.unix-cpm utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!AFITGORDON@BBNB Wed Jun 24
04:16:35 1981 
Xerox, IBM, and CP/M for Office Automation Re 
Dave Farber's message of 23 June, I think Dave brought up a very good point.
UNIX development costs would be higher than CP/M costs if the target
processor is an 8080/Z80. Since the majority (90%+) of UNIX is written in C,
problems would arise in bootstrapping up UNIX (provided in source). Among
these problems would be the creation of the machine-dependent interface, the
writing or modifying of a C compiler on the development OS thru which to
compile UNIX, and the media transportability problem from the C/UNIX world
to the development environment to the target environment. CP/M, on the other
hand, only requires that a new BIOS (Basic I/O System, which provides the
machine-dependent drivers for CP/M) be created for the target. I feel,
however, that Xerox and IBM are not aiming at the "home" market, but at the
"personal computer" market. The latter (which includes the "home" market as
a subset) is being used with increasing frequency by small businesses for
automated office support. Accounting, word processing, data base
manipulation, and electronic mail are just some of the applications in this
environment, and these applications are similar to those required by the
automated office in general. Hence, Xerox and IBM COULD be further aiming at
this market and set of applications, and could significantly add to the CP/M
software base for office automation. 

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