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From: Bob Eager
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:16

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On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 17:00:44 -0700, Peter Flass wrote:

> 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.

It worked, but it was a bit lumpy.

I remember writing one for RT-11FB years before that.



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