20 Feb
2003
20 Feb
'03
2:59 a.m.
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Hans Franke wrote:
It's my recollection (from past discussions) that the Victor 9000 came out
before the PC (earlier in the year in 1981) and, as Hans states, MS DOS
was adapted to it after the fact. It did not end up being PC compatible,
but MS-DOS compatible.
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> We had
several Victor 9000's. They ran CP/M and a proprietary MS-DOS. They
> had built-in codec. They actually predated the IBM PC back in 1980. They
WHEN did the Victor 9000 come out?
I doubt that it was available in 1980, and certainly NOT with MS-DOS, nor
CP/M-86.
It was CP/M-86 in the beginning, but they adopted MS-DOS quite
fast. Still, at least for some time, CP/M was the mostly used OS.
(and beeing serious, MS-DOS 1.0 didn't offer any advantage after
all.