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On 20/03/2018 20:42, Peter Flass wrote:
> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:34:53 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:56:46 -0400
>>> Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, 1977. That was when the Commodore PET, the Apple ][ and the Tandy
>>>> TRS-80 were offered. The first computers which also had a keyboard and
>>>> monitor (well for the Apple ][ the customer needed to buy a
>>>> monitor). Thus people not being nerds could actually use them. That
>>>> kicked off the home computer revolution in my opinion.
>>>
>>> Agreed, prior to those three home computing was about building a
>>> computer, afterwards it was about using one, not just home use either but
>>> also small business use started with these three (I wrote a cattle feed
>>> program on the TRS-80 for one farmer).
>>
>> And there was the MITS Altair. It just had panel switches like some PDP
>> computers.
>>
>> You could add cards though and then had video output and keyboard
>> input. But that was not default.
>>
>> If I understand this correctly the BASIC Allen and Gates wrote was
>> also an operating system.
>>
>>>> I say it was triggered in the late 70s but really kicked off in the
>>>> 80s.
>>>
>>> The next important thing after the PET/Apple/TRS-80 appearing was
>>> CP/M bringing with it industry standard applications (WordStar in
>>> particular).
>>
>> A shame CP/M was killed of by MS-DOS. Would had been interesting to see
>> what happened to it if not. Especially when the GUIs came out in the mid
>> 80. I know GEM ran on it, but (other than used in an ATARI ST and for
>> UNIX/Linux) it never really took off or was developed further.
> 
> GEM ran on PC/MS DOS, too. At the time I thought it was a better bet than
> windows, probably because of smaller resource requirements. (my "distaste"
> for microsoft came later).
> 

1987 I had the Amstrad PC1512 (2 off 5" floppies" ) which came with the 
choice of PCDOS or GEM operating systems


Also, when others were itemising OSs, I used OS32 on Perkin Elmer 8/32s