Subject: Re: A pdp-11 on eBay which had DOS loaded...
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: V. M. Haas <vhaas@eclipse.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/24/2001 18:00:35
"Dave McGuire said to me in strictest confidence"
>
> On June 23, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> > CP/M was available for the 8080/Z80 architecture, the immediate
> > 8-bit predecessor to the 8086-based line of junk we still have
> > as PCs today (later, CP/M 86 was available for 8086 PCs aswell
> > but that was a rather irrelevant part of history.)
>
> CP/M was also available for 68K processors.
>
> -Dave McGuire
>
Way back in antiquity, there was a PDP-11 OS called "DOS" (the acronym
is obvious). I remember working (however briefly) with one in school.
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-- Mark
"640K Should be enough memory for anybody!" -- Bill Gates, 1981