Legacy apps in Windows/OS X was Re: Old MS-DOS & Win Software

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:52:21 -0800
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:

> On 12/9/2005 at 1:38 PM Allison wrote:
> 
> >The early NEC 8080 (round lid prior to 77ish) set the flags
> >wrong  I believe it was the sign flag though I'd have to check.
> > After IMSAI 
> >and others dumped them for the big they redesigned to exactly
> >match  the Intel 8080A, NEC part was 8080AF.
> 
> I thought it was interesting that although IMSAI wouldn't use
> the NEC 8080A part on their CPU cards, they freely used it in
> their floppy controller. Probably to use up old stock, who
> knows?
> 

Sure.  If you're stuck with incompatible old stock, stick it an
embedded application where it will run ONLY your own well-tested
code.