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- From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh bigots
- Message-ID: <torrie.722576643@Xenon.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: torrie@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
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- Organization: CS Department, Stanford University, California, USA
- References: <agr1-_b@rpi.edu> <Cohena-131192125308@l30346.mdc.com> <1992Nov14.021715.28924@itsmail1.hamilton.edu> <1992Nov15.081518.11743@sequent.com> <6374.2b111607@hayes.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 92 03:44:03 GMT
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- bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) writes:
- >This gave it foolish things like 180K 5 1/2" disks. (The original design
- >called for 8" disks with larger capacity) IBM came out with the product
- >and they didn't even have a plan for it. There was no OS for it. (You
- >had your choice of three different OSes, available from different
- >vendors (can anyone name all three?))
-
- I know the first two, but I'm not certain on the third.
-
- 1. PC-DOS 1.0 (actually MS-DOS 1.0 from Microsoft)
- 2. CPM/86 from Digital Research
-
- 3. Was it the UCSD P-System (from who??) or Xenix from SCO/Microsoft.
-
- I was wondering about this the other day, particularly when did
- Xenix for the PC come out. Now that I think about it, it probably
- didn't arrive until the XT (and its hard disk) in 1983.
-
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- Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu
- Embrace rationalism, reject superstition. Break away from the past.
- "...there is only one thing worse than having marketing people on a project,
- and that is having no marketing people on a project." - Larry Tesler.
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