CP/M as an RTOS (was Re: Dumb OS question)

<CP/M wasn't bad for its day, and I was rather fond of it at the time <(compared to some of the feeble crap that other companies were putting It still isn't. I run a lot of stuff here using cpm and have a few projects going to add things I feel are missing like hierarchal directories. <out, such as Ohio Scientific's OS-65D), but I'd have to concur with <your assessment of it. Keep in mind that comments of it's being not an OS but a FS is subtle but totally lost of the flamers. <I've provoked some major flames myself by calling MS-DOS a feeble excuse <for a program loader. But in reality I have to admit that MS-DOS is more <functional than CP/M. However, MS-DOS loses if you compare functionality <per byte of memory consumed. By that metric, hardly anything that I've <seen would even come close to DEC's OS/8. Yep! Allison