🚀 go-pugleaf

syd...@skypoint.com (Scott Butler) writes:
>Russell Webb (rw...@panix.com) wrote:
>: Ditto.  I have had a long-time dislike of MS due to the lameness of DOS and 
>: the inherent problems with Windows 3.x, .........
>I wish people would get this stuff right! Don't blame Microsoft for DOS, 
>blame IBM - who picked the lame-ass Intel chip for their new PC (over 
>Microsoft's advice) in the first place. Many of DOSs limitations actually 
>stem from limitations in the Intel architecture. 

Huh?

IBM had the Intel 8086/8088 in mind before it solicited OS people.  CPM/80
was probably envisioned as the primary OS, but when Microsoft bought DOS
1.0 from someone else and fixed it up a little, they were in the right
place at the right time (and Digital missed out, as the legends say).  DOS
1.0 was so awful it had to be rewritten from scratch for 2.0.

The details are rough, but my paragraph above is much closer to true than
yours.  Jeez.

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Kevin Martin                                                   si...@mcs.com
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