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- Honestly the CP/M part is what caught my attention.
I knew the V20 was a nice little upgrade for an XT, but had no clue people were actually running CP/M stuff on it too.
Would be pretty cool to see how that worked in real life. Old PC compatibility stuff was kinda nuts.
by mr_big_bowls - I knew it was possible to run CP/M programs (and CP/M itself) on my PC with its V20, but I never found out how.by rbanffy
- Not mentioned - the NEC V30 CPU, which was the V20's 8086-replacement near-twin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20#Variants_and_successor...
IIR, the V30 provided a notably better improvement (over the 8086), because the 16-bit memory bus meant it was less often starved for bandwidth.
by bell-cot - I just got served a big chunk of JSON, not even pretty-printed, with the text in there... somewhere. Difficulty level: quite high, even in reader mode.
(same on macOS+Firefox and iPhone+Safari)
by tom_