CP/M as an RTOS (was Re: Dumb OS question)

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Apr 18 06:01:12 1999

Allison wrote:
> Which some old timers to comp.os.cpm may remember the firestorm when
> I called CP/M a file system and not an OS... ;)

CP/M wasn't bad for its day, and I was rather fond of it at the time
(compared to some of the feeble crap that other companies were putting
out, such as Ohio Scientific's OS-65D), but I'd have to concur with
your assessment of it.

I've provoked some major flames myself by calling MS-DOS a feeble excuse
for a program loader. But in reality I have to admit that MS-DOS is more
functional than CP/M. However, MS-DOS loses if you compare functionality
per byte of memory consumed. By that metric, hardly anything that I've
seen would even come close to DEC's OS/8.

Eric
Received on Sun Apr 18 1999 - 06:01:12 BST