(No cryptorelevance, but neither is anything else on this list anymore) abostick@netcom.com (Alan Bostick) writes:
to portability...what the world might have looked like for the past 15 years has the UCSD p-system succeeded instead of MS-DOS)
What a horrifying thought! UCSD p-system actually made MS-DOS look good.
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.) --- Dr. Dimitri Vulis Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps