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From: louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: mpm OPERATING SYSTEM
Summary: MP/M is still alive
Message-ID: <812@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 00:18:00 GMT
References: <77456@neabbs.UUCP> <2659@rti.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <2659@rti.UUCP>, bcw@rti.UUCP (Bruce Wright) writes:
> In article <77456@neabbs.UUCP>, driesb@neabbs.UUCP (DRIES BESSELS) writes:
> > Is there anybody in here who has any knowledge about the MPM operating
> > system. We just got a TELEFAX cluster controller and it has some
> 
> The only MPM system I know of was actually spelled MP/M, and was a 
> relative of CP/M.  It is a multitasking, and can be configured as a
> multiuser, operating system for 8080/Z-80 type machines.  I have never
> heard of an implementation on 8086 type machines (such as the IBM-PC).

I sold MP/M systems in '83, and there is still one churning away at
the town office here, same Z-80 computer, same Miniscribe disk, has
been run everyday since May of 1983.  They are about to move up to
Xenix, and would have the docs available real cheap I would think.

However, as the poster pointed out, it was not a very pretty
system, but robust, and has done the job.  If you don't need
multiuser, CP/M will be much faster.


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Louis Schmittroth, Computer Science, Athabasca University
auvax!louis