[email protected] (McKown, John) writes: > What, no mention of CP/M-86? I don't think that MP/M ever had a x86 > version. I do remember running Pick on my XT clone. Now that was a > weird beastie. And you totally ignored things like the Amiga. I loved > what I saw of that software. I wish now that my boss at the time > hadn't convinced me to go with an XT clone.
before windows there was ms-dos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS before ms-dos there was seattle computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products</a> before seattle computer there was cp/m http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M</a> and before cp/m, kildall worked on cp/67 (cms) at npg (gone 404, but lives on at the wayback machine) http://web.archive.org/web/20071011100440/http://www.khet.net/gmc/docs/museum/en_cpmName.html</a> cp67 not just npg ... but also various other places ... also gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20090117083033/http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml as undergraduate in the 60s, I was doing lots of operating system stuff and even got requests from vendor to do certain things. I didn't learn about those guys until a long time later ... but in retrospect, some of the change requests were of the nature that they may have originated from such organizations. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
