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Wrote thousands and thousands of lines of code on CP/M, back in the day - not on an Amstrad CPC back then, rather some other strange machine - but it opened the door for a lot of great work in the decades that followed.

In my retro collection I currently have a CPC6128 that boots CP/M and for which I have Turbo C and Turbo Pascal installed.

I prefer to run SymbianOS on it though - it has multitasking, a network stack and a working GUI. ;)



Symbian OS is something entirely different: a native ARM OS written in C++ for smartphones.

You're probably thinking of SymbOS:

http://www.symbos.de/


Thanks, thats correct - I was thinking of SymbOS. :) Its a mistake I make almost every single time I refer to the Amstrad CPC6128 version of it.

See also: ContikiOS (for 8-bit machines) .. pretty amazing!




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