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Comment by stevekemp

4 hours ago

I still run Borland's Turbo Pascal on CP/M systems, and many programs had setup/configuration programs which would rewrite binaries for specific input/output devices.

Choosing between ADM-3A or ANSI terminals by running "WINSTALL" would rewrite the main Wordstart executable WS.COM appropriately for example.

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