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Article #621379Re: Old word processors
From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:53
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 20:53
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:11:20 -0400 Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 08:34:53 +0000, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > > > > 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 Indeed it was, although MP/M kept it going in some places until the 80286 and XENIX became a better multi-user option. > 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. There was a lot going on in the multi-user/tasking area with CP/M and MP/M in the latter days - things like the Micromation machine with a Z80 and 64K behind each terminal connector running CP/M and another one running MP/M managing the whole lot, or the Televideo star networks of CP/M and MP/M machines. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith | Directable Mirror Arrays C:\>WIN | A better way to focus the sun The computer obeys and wins. | licences available see You lose and Bill collects. | http://www.sohara.org/
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