10 Dec
2001
10 Dec
'01
6:50 a.m.
Hi,
Ben Franchuk said:
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Can I just put a word in for LDOS (for TRS-80) - one of the better
8-bit operating systems. I really missed some of it's capabilies
when I moved to MSDOS (V. 2-point-something), particularly the
device independence and easy driver and filter installation.
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
True, but back in those days, that wasn't a fatal limitation. Besides,
the 8-bitters didn't really have a OS, more of a structured program
loader. If all you need to do is read in executables and read/write
data files, you don't need a full OS.
In retospect I would say people expected BASIC to run rom. I/O
was a feature only used to save your programs, maybe even data.
The Apple,TRS-80?,Pets,C64's,Coco's,IBM-PC all come to mind.
CP/M was the most common real OS, but lets not forget about
6800/6809 machines running FLEX or OS/9.