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From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 23:54

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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> 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?

Resource requirements, mainly. UNIX on an 8086 wasn't really feasible 
(although Minix did it in the end).

> It took Linus to turn unix into a true, and widely-used,  personal
> operating system.

Well ... 386BSD (becoming {Free,Net,Open}BSD was stable a little bit 
earlier, but didn't get Linus' marketing push.

And none of these are truly UNIX, in the legal sense of the name. BSD is 
a bit nearer in the code sense.

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