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Article #621380Re: Old word processors
From: Peter Flass
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:21
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 22:21
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Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > 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. > Okay, I was going to ask what CP/M had that DOS didn't (except nostalgia), since the latter was derived from the former. Once you include MP/M I can see a difference. On the other hand it's a shame the unix wasn't able to get into this space earlier - resource and legal requirements? It took Linus to turn unix into a true, and widely-used, personal operating system. -- Pete
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