Re: Old word processors

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From: Andreas Kohlbach
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 21:23

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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.
-- 
Andreas

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