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From: kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST/Amiga Blitter & ST OS (CP/M/GEM?)
Summary: footnote, ancient history
Message-ID: <795@zinn.MV.COM>
Date: 8 Jul 90 00:13:01 GMT
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Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH
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I never used CP/M extensively, but I clearly recall that the command-line
interpreter of CP/M was an immediate descendent of those of the traditional
(i.e. pre-VMS) DEC operating systems -- TOPS-10, RT-11, OS/8.  I haven't
used MS-DOS extensively either, but I can use it in a pinch mostly because
it, in turn, looks a lot like CP/M.  So, I suppose one could say that,
to the extent that TOS is based on MS-DOS, TOS is indirectly based on CP/M,
except that the window/mouse user interface doesn't look anything like the
user interface of either MS-DOS or CP/M.  Just a bit of history...

-- Kenn Goutal

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