16-bit Intel 8088 chip by Charles Bukowski

16-bit Intel 8088 chip

with an Apple Macintosh
you can't run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can't read each other's
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but
can't use most programs produced for
the IBM Personal Computer
unless certain
bits and bytes are
altered
but the wind still blows over
Savannah
and in the Spring
the turkey buzzard struts and
flounces before his
hens.

16-bit Intel 8088 chip by Charles Bukowski
https://allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-8088-chip

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That's a cheeky reminder that technology ages fast yet stubbornly clings to its own ecosystems. The poem shows how hardware ruins cross-compatibility, while culture keeps finding poetic steel in obsolescence. If we design systems today, we should bake interoperability in, not pretend retro constraints are noble; progress without compatibility is just nostalgia gone loud.
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