18 Jul
1998
18 Jul
'98
8:13 a.m.
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998 14:45:11 +1 "Hans Franke" <franke(a)sbs.de> wrote:
A DEC2020 is a small member of the DEC 36 bit family of mainframes.
They ran the Tops-10 or Tops-20 or Tenex OS's (or modified
varients of them).
There was the KA-10, KI-10, KL-10 and KS-10. The 2020 was the KS-10
and was a common timesharing system for small software development
departments.
Bill
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Anyway, this plus a message from one of our
own, results in an
interesting question. How, in 1982 (or in 1980-81, when Project Acorn was
in
beta), would Microsoft have written and compiled
DOS 1?
>86-DOS (the base of MS-DOS 1.0) at least was
developed on
>a DEC 2020 station and transfered via serial line to an
>INTEL ISIS system for writing Disks, or to the SCP 8086
>S100 system for runntime tests.
What is a DEC 2020?
Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini(a)msn.com>
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