The TRS-80 had a wide choice for the OS, and there were hardware clones
And then there were all the other machines Apple, Sinclair, Atari, Acorn/BBC, Spectravideo, Ohio Scientific/UK101 etc etc etc.
And if you wanted business there were all the CPM based ones Osbourne, Kaypro, Bondwell, Tandy, Panasonic etc etc
It was an incredibly rich time for computing back then, competing hardware, CPUs, OS's, Peripherals.
There we all sorts of variations on Basic (love it or hate it), The Jupiter Ace used Forth.
Var
Sinclair ZX Spectrum was dominating in parts of Europe. Their tape system was so much better than Commodore (up to 6x faster bitrates and using standard tape players for music too), that at one point I ported it to Commodore to load games faster. Fun times.
TRS-80 etc (Score:5, Insightful)
And then there were all the other machines Apple, Sinclair, Atari, Acorn/BBC, Spectravideo, Ohio Scientific/UK101 etc etc etc.
And if you wanted business there were all the CPM based ones Osbourne, Kaypro, Bondwell, Tandy, Panasonic etc etc
It was an incredibly rich time for computing back then, competing hardware, CPUs, OS's, Peripherals.
There we all sorts of variations on Basic (love it or hate it), The Jupiter Ace used Forth.
Var
Re:TRS-80 etc (Score:3)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum was dominating in parts of Europe. Their tape system was so much better than Commodore (up to 6x faster bitrates and using standard tape players for music too), that at one point I ported it to Commodore to load games faster. Fun times.