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Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System (computerhistory.org)
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[–] MakePorkGreatAgain@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

was cp/m really that good? never used it and all of the media I've seen of it looks like just another variant of dos. i grew up using dos, and I use the shell for a lot of stuff at work all the time these days, but i think most people prefer to interact via a gui

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago

I think you mean DOS looks like a variant of CP/M, because DOS started as a clone of CP/M.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Because DOS is a stolen illegal copy of CP/M, but with a few features removed. And yes CP/M was way better, and had for instance multitasking way before MS-DOS. And it had filesystem safety, the lack of which caused decades of security nightmares on PC.