Dec Rainbow prehistory

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Wed Nov 19 19:29:39 2003

On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 16:24, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

re: int 20h

> Why was it short sighted? ... Since the design was before MS-DOS,

Oh oh... was it really? Is it possible that my mental chronology is
corrupted? Gee, that's never happened before, erm, ugh...

> when was the rainbow produced?

I don't recall exactly, I'd guess 1981 or 1982.

> I'm not sure when
> QDOS was first introduced, but my guess is around 1979 or there-abouts.

Obviously I may be utterly wrong here then.

(I recall the QDOS name also, barely, but it was also called 86DOS at
some point; what was what where?)

> Also, DEC was primarily a minicomputer manufacturer so it may not be that
> far fetched that engineers there might not be terribly familiar with state
> of the art (hah!) microcomputer products at the time.

Well... I lack sympathy here, still; obviously they were building
machinery for this realm, it was beholden on them to know, as much as
was possible then of course. DEC was very arrogant about CP/M-86 being
superior; they told me as much many times.

> -spc (When will this stuff dislodge from my brain? 8-)

Never, it just changes shape :-)
Received on Wed Nov 19 2003 - 19:29:39 GMT