Re: The Joy of Java

On Wed, 1 May 1996, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:

My recollection is that when IBM first started selling IBM PC, they offered a choice of (at least) 3 operating systems right from the start: UCSD p-system, CP/M-86 or PC-DOS. IBM didn't do anything to prompte PC-DOS over the other two. It won fair and square in the marketplace because the other two were even worse crap. (Later versions of CP/M-86 got much better.)

I always had been under the impression that they charged a hundred dollars or more for CPM as opposed to DOS which was also a major reason for its popularity. Bruce Marshall