On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
> <Out of interest, what would a N* want with 256K anyway? Presumably,
> <whatever OS it is running is pretty hefty stuff!
>
> It ran NSdos which was pretty lightweight. and didn't care much about
> how much ram there was. It was possible to run multiuser NSdos.
>
> CP/M was commonly ported to it and 2.2 could be banked if you weren't
> faint of heart and CPM-3 was designed for banked operation. MPM was a
> multiuser cpm that also could use banked ram while running multiple
> users.
There was also 'Oasis', which was a multi-user / multi-tasking OS which
was fairly popular on the NorthStar and Altos systems for a time.
-jim
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