XT 5160

[Patrick Finnegan]

woodelf declared on Wednesday 04 May 2005 10:04 pm:
> Parker, Kevin wrote:
> >Do you know what the popular choice was?
>
> My Guess is IBM-DOS ...  MS-DOS only came more
> popular with the clones.   Now what programing languges
> did you have back then? Assembler , Pascal and Fortran
> come to mind.

Erm, you seem to have left out BASIC, one version of which didn't require 
you to have disks to use (ROM BASIC); however, that was probably more 
useful on the 5150 PC than the 5160 PC/XT since the PC had a cassette 
interface you could use with it, which the XT lacks.

Pat
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