26 May
2024
26 May
'24
3:49 p.m.
> "Real OS"? While I don't agree with
your specific examples of
> inadequacies, I will readily concede that nothing so far is ready for the
> title.
On Sun, 26 May 2024, ben via cctalk wrote:
CP/M was the cats meyow in the 1970's,but there
was other systems out like
flex for the 6800, or later OS/9 for the 6809. Don't they get a chance too
for real OS.
OS/9 was kinda cool, but my Cocos were kinda inadequate hardware to make
full use of it.
Randy Cook tried to make a "real OS" for the TRS80. But, he never
FINISHED [nor documented] TRSDOS, nor VTOS. When LSI commissioned LDOS,
as the finishing of TRSDOS/VTOS, they stripped out a lot of the "real OS"
features that Randy Cook had intended, but never finished implementing.
But, when Radio-shack licensed LDOS, to be TRSDOS 6.0, Randy Cook finally
started to receive royalties.
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