CP/M-86 / MSDOS / DRDOS / GEM / Windows

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Fri Sep 18 08:07:52 1998

that CP/M could have possibly been our main stream OS.. How could so ma
< great ideas get lost in the big shuffle..?

Yes I ahve a lot of the 8bit stuff like DRGRAPH.

< I know everyone has been talking about GUI's, and according to this arti
< Digital Research did alot of work in this area.

And real product for both 8 and 16 bit systems.

< Also Digital Research back in 1989 released a very good DOS called DRDOS
< used this for awhile back in 1990 and was very impressed with its featur
< then MS came out with a clone of it called MSDOS ver 6.0.. I still own
< several original copies of DRDOS in unopened packages..

What you missed is MPM-86 and CCPM that DRI did before DRDOS! Btoh of
wich were a significant advancement over DOS.

Allison
Received on Fri Sep 18 1998 - 08:07:52 BST