For those of you interested, the orginal Kildall operating system
(CP/M) is now "open source" - all the souce code is available at
http://www.cpm.z80.de - there are a large number of commercial
applications availabe for CP/M at http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/
You can run CP/M via telnet at
http://museum.sysun.com/museum/exhibit.html
Edmund Cramp
--
http://www.emgsrus.com/graffiti.htm
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf
> Of Will Lowe
> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 12:28 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OS/2 and Microsoft
>
>
> Here is some info on GeoWorks.
> http://www.chromehorse.net/rants/rants99/geoworks.htm
>
> Do you realize that four years before Windows was released
> there were at
> lease four other windowing systems avaiable. One of thoses was Gem
> developted by Gary Kildall and Digital Reseach ( the
> developers of CP/M).
> History says that Gary showed Bill Gates (a friend at the
> time) a demo of
> Gem and 5 or six years later Microsoft come up with Windows.
>
> And here is a little more about the man who made what we do
> with computers
> today a reality.
> http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=928/ddj9718i/9718i.htm And
> I don't mean Bill
> Gates.
>
> Gary Kildall once said "Ask Bill Gates why function code 6
> ends in a dollar
> sign. No one in the world knows that but me."
>
> Yet it was in Gates's programs.
>
> Will Lowe
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chopin Cusachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 9:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] OS/2 and Microsoft
>
>
> >
> > As I recall OS/2 was written for IBM by Microsoft.
> >
> > Seems particularly interesting to me that multithreading and
> > preemptive multitasking were well established around 1980 in the
> > VAX/VMS line from Digital, and at a similar time in Unix. The
> > VAX had hardware access control and paging, so our VAX-11/780
> > ran well for some years for a few users at a time with only 1/2 MB
> > of physical memory. We increased the memory as the operating
> > system got bloated enough to demand it.
> >
> > DOS reminded me of the Kludge Monitor for the IBM 7044 back
> > in the 1960s. It could load a job, turn over control to the job,
> > and when the job completed, aborted, or timed out, reload itself.
> > Later versions did do a bit more.
> >
> > There was another graphical operating system that beat Windows
> > 3.1 hands down in a head to head competition at HAL-PC in
> > Houston I attended. Was the name GeoWorks or something like
> > that?
> >
> > Choppy
> >
> > At 02:14 AM 5/31/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> > >I came across this (
> >
> >http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/os2/faq/os2faq-toc.html
> ) site on the
> web.
> > >If you want to know about OS/2 it might interest you. I
> didn't know much
> > >about OS/2-- my previous knowledge of OS/2 was limited
> to ---"OS/2 is a
> > >superior OS than M$ Window$". But this article tells
> more about OS/2.
> > >
> > >Below is a portion of what the article said about OS/2.
> >
> >
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