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I've used Linux at home for 20+ years, and sometimes mac at work.

To be honest I struggle to notice many changes, my machine was already configured the way I liked it and at work I basically live in only four applications:

Firefox for personal-browsing, chrome for work-browsing, terminal for running terraform, git, etc, and emacs for all development work.

Sure resizing is less good, but I do that once a day, in the morning, when I login. The rest of the changes I just don't notice or care about.

I grew up with the Spectrum, and wrote a CP/M emulator a while back. I'd be curious to see how complete it would get.

I struggled a lot with some complex software, which worked on some emulators and failed on others (and mine).

For example one bug I had, which is still outstanding, relates to the Hisoft C compiler:

https://github.com/skx/cpmulator/issues/250

But I see that my cpm-dist repository is referenced in the download script so that made me happy!

It's great to see people still using CP/M, writing software for it, and sharing the knowledge. Though I do think the choice to implement the CCP in C, rather than using a genuine one, is an interesting one, and a bit of a cheat. It means that you cannot use "SUBMIT" and other common-place binaries/utilities.

HiSoft C · Issue #250 · skx/cpmulator

This is repeat of an old issue, #234. The HiSoft C compiiler, as contained in David's repo, fails: https://github.com/davidly/cpm_compilers I can run the v135 compiler, but not the v3.09. However I...

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Sadly it seems the blog post that was released in the past is no longer available, but the wayback machine has a copy

https://web.archive.org/web/20220303135439/https://oldblog.a...

That provides background about the constraints/limitations in this code.

picol, a Tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C code - antirez weblog