28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
1:16 a.m.
woodelf wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Yes, generally you're right I think in that there wasn't much OS-level
software around; but that doesn't mean to say that there weren't lots of
applications (and games!) floating about.
DOS (in its Microsoft and IBM flavours) must have been reasonably common by
the mid 80s.
I'm sure that by the mid-80s lots of manufacturers had OSes specific to their
hardware, too (e.g. PanOS and Brazil* in the Acorn world)
* Although the latter was more of a program loader / debugger than a full OS.
Out of interest, were there many manufacturers
who sold a system with
three different CPUs as standard? There were a few around with two, I
know...
But what with different CPU's could you run? Looking back in hind sight
the only OS out there was CP/M for the 8080. All the rest just seemed
to have BASIC in ROM and some way of saveing programs. I know somebody had planned a 6100 for use as CPU
board but I forgot
who. That reminds me now that I got a PDP-8 clone I am going have to
learn how to use it. So what is the best way to learn OS/8? I still
can't get over how many features this has considering the size of the
PDP-8 for memory.
Someone else can answer that one :) (I don't know why, but my eyes glaze over
when it comes to DEC stuff even though I can't think why it shouldn't be
interesting to me)
cheers
J.