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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 02:05:49PM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:07:35PM +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > > Crap, there's a pip program on CPM? > > > > What does it do? > > It is the Peripheral Interchange Program. The Unix equivalent would be > cp, I suppose. > > > I did google around a bit, and I thought I'd gotten everything. > > > > And what is CPM? :) > Think pre-Commodore 64 Commodore. Actually, you could get CP/M for the Commodore 64, but I don't know of anyone who ever did. > I should really have written CP/M (Control Program/Monitor), an > operating system from which MS-DOS took many ideas, and one of the few > operating systems to which perl hasn't been ported, as far as I know. > > Now someone will tell me perl has been ported to CP/M (I hope). But > even if anyone is still using CP/M, I doubt they're going to be > installing even six year old software. > Installing Perl on a 25+ year old might be a nice upgrade...if the hardware could handle it. ;) Steve Peters steve@fisharerojo.orgThread Previous | Thread Next