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Re: What else?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward H. Currie)
Fri Oct 30 13:41:49 1998
From: "Edward H. Currie" <ehcurrie@worldnet.att.net>
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:34:50 -0500
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From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: What else?
>There are: PCDOS, MSDOS, Forth, RTC, CP/M-86, MP/M-86, DR-DOS,
>Concurrent DR-DOS, Multiuser DR DOS, RT-DOS, RT-DRDOS, Flex, OS/9,
>Xenix, and "None at All", meaning you can boot an assembly
>program directly from the PC without an O/S, just using BIOS
>calls if you want.
>
>Of the bunch above, some are dead, some are moribund, and some are
>alive and well and thriving. In particular, all of the DRDOS
>variants are alive and well. The RT-DRDOS (various subnames)
>is used for control purposes where its real-time kernel is useful.
>Concurrent DRDOS (or sometimes called Concurrent PCDOS) is
>another Digital Research venture which works well and is alive
>under several guises, the most notable being the Novell Netware
>series.
>
>CP/M 86 and MP/M 86 are earlier implementations. CP/M 86
>lost out to QDOS/PCDOS/MSDOS in 1980, but MP/M 86 evolved
>into Concurrent DRDOS. Using DRDOS is a pleasure compared
>to using MS-DOS.
>
>Quick quiz: how many here have used this command and what
>does it do? Are you old enough to answer:
>
>PIP a:filea.com b:fileb.com
>
>--
PIP = Perifpheral Interchange Program copies a file from one location to
another.
>Ramon Gandia ==== Sysadmin ==== Nook Net ==== http://www.nook.net
>285 West First Avenue rfg@nook.net
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>
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