From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill) Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Alpha release Linux/GNU/X unix clone on CDROM for PCs Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 03:15:21 GMT
In article <id.TJEV.31K@ferranti.com>, peter@ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> > In addition look at the computers available when MSDOS was written.
>
> Yep, I was there. When MS-DOS came out I and most of my friends were amazed
> at how bad it was. CP/M was better, and CP/M was none too good.
Not to mention that a 6MHz Z80 beat the pants off a 4.77 Mhz 8088.
And the 8 inch disks held 4 times as much as the toy 360k disks. You could
actually run a compiler, editor and numerous other applications without
needing two drives or a hard disk. And the system didn't have to be
hardware compatible with every other CP/M system out there - it was a
half portable OS.
Graeme Gill