12 Apr
2007
12 Apr
'07
12:57 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
I was looking for something else and ran across a
two-binder set of
something called "PC-MOS" by The Software Link, circa 1992. I opened
the shrinkwrap on the nstallation manual and the thing looks like
it's a multi-user version of MS-DOS, talking to terminals. I
appear to have a 5 user version.
Anyone familiar with this animal? The version is 4.2.
Cheers,
Chuck
As others have mentioned, it allowed you to connect terminals to a PC
and have each terminal act as a virtual PC. The version I used had some
limitations such as not supporting apps that did direct screen writes,
but it was a relatively inexpensive way to share DOS apps amongst
different users (at a time when networking was rare and quite expensive,
IIRC $1200 for an ethernet card). We used Kimtron (I think that was the
name) serial terminals that were special in that their keyboard layout
mimicked the PC. Was pretty slick with the right apps, at the time
running on a NCR 286 box (which was a screamer for it's day).
George