23 Aug
2012
23 Aug
'12
12:23 p.m.
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Going to a different file system was about the
smartest thing that
(SCP/Microsoft) ever did. The rest of the MS-DOS and CP/M API is
pretty weak, but that filesystem made a huge difference. People may
gripe about Microsoft "stealing" from DRI, but if I were in the
driver's seat at IBM, there would be no questions as to which system
was superior. And what is CP/M or MS-DOS but a file management
facility?
I don't feel that MS-DOS 1.0 had any significant advantage[s] over CP/M
2.x
When MS-DOS 2.0 came out, with sub-directories and paths, THAT made a
significant difference. But those changes could have been done to CP/M
with comparable effort to what making those changes had been with MS-DOS.
Therefore, I thibnk that we are back to, "WOULD DRI have made the needed
changes?", and the culture clash.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com