28 Oct
2006
28 Oct
'06
11:27 a.m.
TRS DOS market was prety big at the time. To begin with it was the
ONLY desktop computer available in the mass marked....almost two years
if memory serves me well. There were several "mini" computers around,
but nothing like the RS computer with 8k of memory and a tape system
for probgam loading/saving and BASIC.
On 10/28/06, Chandra Bajpai <cbajpai at comcast.net> wrote:
How big was the TRS-80 Market to support all thoses DOSes?
I remember when NewDOS/80 and I just remember it being fast. Any idea who
wrote that?
-Chandra
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:24 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: The Origins of DOS
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Warren Wolfe wrote:
--
Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."
[TRS-DOS]
It was its own universe, Jim. The links and questionable parentage
of the original version of DOS are tied directly to CP/M, which was the
first O/S for personal computers that any significant number of
businesses embraced. And, Windows came out of the DOS world, and now
dominates as few products have dominated before. (Note: I am NOT
claiming this is a GOOD thing.)
From what I can tell, TRSDOS was not a rip-off of anyone's software,
and nobody bothered to rip it off, so it's pretty much out of the world
of O/S scandal.
There WERE several imitators of TRS-DOS (although still for TRS-80),
including NEWDOS, DOSPLUS, and the semi-legitimate offspring LDOS.
It actually was pretty decent, and had a few
ideas of
merit that didn't make it into the mainstream world for a while. It was
just totally tied to Radio Shack computing, and suffered a mortal wound
when IBM came out with their PC. No fault of its own.
Rasio Shack AVOIDED expanding TRS-DOS into other semi-related hardware
platforms.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com