from what i may know is that dos had support on some
smaller machines but some machines made in the 80's werent compatible with each other
and thus you had to have special drivers made for the unit and the os at hand. some
machines used their own dos os or simular os and all drivers werent the same
-----Original Message-----
From: ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
To: cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tue, Jul 8, 2014 11:59 pm
Subject: Re: best dos machine
On 7/8/2014 10:53 AM, Philip Belben wrote:
and,
a model M keyboard with working shift and enter keys
Are you sure? The keyboard I know as the "Model M" was the AT enhanced
keyboard (and with a different plug and slightly different trim, the
PS/2 keyboard). It is a total anachronism for the 5150. I'm not sure
it would even work with it!
Philip.
Other than UNIX did any DOS really support hardware on the smaller machines?
True Serial I/O was never handled under DOS. One can forgive the lack of
DOS on say a PDP 8, not on a cpu like 8088. Ben.