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That Robot posted:there is an urban legend that gary killdall almost got his CP/M operating system on the IBM PC, but his wife told them to screw while he was flying his plane Apple would have won the majority of the personal computer market with the Mac, duh GEM would not be in the position that Windows is in today because Digital Research didn't get prerelease Lisa and Mac access like Microsoft was able to leverage when developing Windows GEM also wouldn't be in the position that Windows is in today because Apple was actually successful in suing Digital Research over it (the only reason the suit against Microsoft failed was that they had contracts with MS that appeared to allow the cloning) Microsoft would still own the office desktop with Office, but it would be Mac-only just like it was for the first few years, and Gates would still be a multibillionaire as a result
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Dr. Honked posted:did any of you cunts ever have to use c/pm for actual work? i did. it was really bad it was just a clone of RT-11 or RSTS or RTE or one of the other small DEC operating systems should've gone the Alpha Micro route and cloned TOPS-10 or TOPS-20
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# ¿ Dec 5, 2016 03:40 |
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That Robot posted:how long ago was that? do you think any ancient cp/m boxes are still used by one or two luddites/crazy folk? oh, I'm sure there are some, probably even some that are business-critical Alpha Micro was late 1970s, they originally used the WD-16 CPU but switched to 68000 as soon as they were available and had an OS written they were basically "micro-minicomputers" for things like small offices to use via a bunch of terminals; their competition was Xenix as much as it was the smallest minis from the established minicomputer companies, Xenix won though Digital Research had a couple of operating systems in that category too, they had CP/M-68K for people with single-user 68000 systems (I think Atari ST was originally going to run that instead of their own awful DOS) and variants of MP/M for everything for multi-user systems
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That Robot posted:awesome thank you for the detailed answer I think MP/M was just multiuser CP/M, if anything the multiuser would be similar to the small DEC operating systems that CP/M was a clone of SCO was actually spun out of Microsoft to own Xenix, it was originally an entirely Microsoft product before they consolidated everything behind MS-DOS, they were promoting their CP/M and DOS products on the low end (they even made a Z-80 card for the Apple ][, the MicroSoft SoftCard) and Xenix on Z-8000 and 68000 on the high end for example, the TRS-80 Model II/16, which was the Z-80 based Model II with a 68000 coprocessor board, ran Xenix and was promoted by Radio Shack as a small office solution (with terminals or Model IIIs on desktops) and they had Xenix for a variety of 68000 systems, there was even a complete version for Apple Lisa that didn't take advantage of the bitmap display or mouse at all, but that you could hook up terminals to for multiuser use edit: I was wrong about the spinoff, SCO was a porting shop, but they got into Xenix by porting it to 8086 eschaton fucked around with this message at 08:12 on Dec 10, 2016 |
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