SCP was certainly inspired by CP/M, but m$ was not. Certainly there are things in PC/MS-DOS that are somewhat different from CP/M.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of John McKown <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 8:23 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CONTROVERSY! z/OS UNIX: is it an enhancement or a tool of the Devil? On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 3:26 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > 1. m$ started with QDOS, not CP/M > Yes you are correct. I was under the impression that QDOS was "inspired" by CP/M-80. At least MS-DOS 1.0 seemed to be CP/M-ish to me. > > 2. CP/M was influence by RT-11 > My ignorance shows here. I know know nothing about DEC system (RT-11 was DEC/PDP, right?). At college, we had a TOPS-20 system that I loved. Especially compared to MVT and Wylbur. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > -- We all have skeletons in our closet. Mine are so old, they have osteoporosis. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
