Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!spdcc!eli
From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Concurrent DOS XM
Message-ID: <2304@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 26 Dec 88 17:48:30 GMT
References: <77456@neabbs.UUCP> <2259@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> <13280@ncoast.UUCP>
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Organization: not S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <13280@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
>MP/M was available for the Altos 586/986, which was most definitely NOT
>S-100 based.  I infer that other non-S-100 releases existed.

	ah!

>Errr, CON-DOS XM is 286-only, isn't it?
>
	XM runs on 8088 machines, i believe.  slowly, but correctly.
	when it boots, it checks CPU type, and modifies its hard disk
	code appropriately...  there's also a hook in XM which allows
	for better performance for some third party hard disk controllers.

	i can't recommend it highly enough -- Concurrent DOS was a 
	lifesaver -- even on an XT or 80186 machine...  i find MS-DOS
	to be "untenable".  gack!