Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

["Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not>]

wildstar128 wrote:
> "Kelli Halliburton" <kelli217@crosswinds.not> wrote in message
> news:rwMW9.248$PR3.80077062@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com...
>> Exegete wrote:
>>
>>> Few people would run and and spend $3,000 for an IBM PC/XT just so
>>> they could run CP/M - esp. since they had to buy extra hardware in
>>> order to be able to do that.
>>
>> Actually, no, they didn't. There was a native version of CP/M for
>> the PC. It was called -- now get this -- "CP/M-86 for the IBM PC."
>> IBM, they sure were creative at naming things, weren't they? ;)
>>
>> Of course, if they wanted to run any of the hundreds of CP/M-80
>> progams, then yes, you are correct; they would have had to buy a
>> coprocessor card. Much like the Z-80 cards available for the ][.
>
> Wasn't that later known as DR-DOS. The makers of CP/M-86 made a later
> made something called DR-DOS.

They did, but the lineage is a bit more complex than that. There was
CP/M-86, MP/M, Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS, DOS Plus, DR-DOS, OpenDOS,
and now DR-DOS again. <www.drdos.com>

Have lots of fun.