Stupid CP/M question

From: Max Eskin <kurtkilg_at_geocities.com>
Date: Sat Jan 9 12:56:27 1999

On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 dpeschel_at_u.washington.edu wrote:
> became. If they had just ripped off a better OS, that might have been nice
> as well. Something with long file names, or multitasking, or whatever.
> And OSs of the time DID have long file names. I don't know about
> multitasking (maybe OS/9 or FLEX were around when DOS was born?).

Interestingly, there were a number of attempts over the years to make a
better OS than DOS. An example is TSX-Lite, a multitasking, 32-bit version
of DOS that was shareware last time I looked. It had the right ideas but
worked very poorly. Caldera DR-DOS supposedly has multitasking but it
hardly works. OS/2 is very resource-intensive, worse than Windows 95.
Which makes me wonder; maybe something good could have been done before
Linux came about, but everyone was too lazy?


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Received on Sat Jan 09 1999 - 12:56:27 GMT