28 Oct
2006
28 Oct
'06
8:10 a.m.
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:
[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.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com