At 01:00 PM 6/4/1998 -0700, Javilk so eloquently stated:
>> If anything is out-of-date, it's NT, the hideous child of VMS, Windows,
>> and DOS, all of which are second-rate technologies (to Unix, MacOS,
>> and CPM respectively). It's at least half a decade behind Unix
>
> CP/M had a lot of shortcomings! Concurrent CP/M was rather nice, but
>the directory structure wasn't there yet when MS steam-rollered them.
>(Not that DOS had much either! I still remember my hard drive becoming
>slower than a floppy due to fragmentation!)
>
Then there was North Star Computers with the first multi-user O/S
for the PC's (late 1970's, early 80's). Five users maximum.
Dumb terminals on their Horizon's (the same one you could build
with a Heath kit). They had the best software on the market,
which, BTW is still running today, only under a different name --
ACCPAC by Computer Associates (and for the most part, still
operating like the old days).
George
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