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Article #621401Re: Old word processors
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:00
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Andreas Kohlbach <a...@spamfence.net> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:21:20 -0700, Peter Flass wrote: >> >> Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >>> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:11:20 -0400 >>> >>> 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), > > Haha! :-) > >> since the latter was derived from the former. Once you include MP/M I can >> see a difference. > > CP/M could distinguish users. Although there was no real security around > at first. > > With MP/M (1979) you had multitasking. Thus you could send a file to the > printer while continuing other work, while on MS-DOS the PC would be > blocked until the print job was completed. That's while some companies > offered hardware printer buffers (for MS-DOS and other non-multitasking > systems) to avoid this. I thought print spooling was one of the few multitasking features in DOS. -- Pete
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