Re: Clever work around for artificial incompatibility
You're incorrect in saying that ".COM files were 8080 programs that could also run on 8086 processors". And who would want to anyway given that the system calls would be completely different for anything other than pretty simplistic programs.
The machine code of the two processors is completely different and although the technical file format of .COM files is the same between DOS and CP/M, there's no way a CP/M program was going to run on a DOS machine without an emulator (of which there were some) involved.
So yes, getting this to work across multiple O/Ses is quite conceptually different to a simplistic file format which happens (for "reasons") to be the same on two O/Ses.
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