On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
<Out of interest, what would a N* want with 256K
anyway? Presumably,
<whatever OS it is running is pretty hefty stuff!
It ran NSdos which was pretty lightweight. and didn't care much about
how much ram there was. It was possible to run multiuser NSdos.
CP/M was commonly ported to it and 2.2 could be banked if you weren't
faint of heart and CPM-3 was designed for banked operation. MPM was a
multiuser cpm that also could use banked ram while running multiple
users.
There was also 'Oasis', which was a multi-user / multi-tasking OS which
was fairly popular on the NorthStar and Altos systems for a time.
-jim
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