From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ronald Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] MS-DOS
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2016 11:25:46 -0400 [thread overview]
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> I think OS/2 was certainly closer to Unix than MS-DOS was.
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Mostly it had the ugliness of both systems. The presentation manager and various other aspects got points for the concept, but the implementation was really far from robust. You spent a lot of time hard-rebooting the the thing when it got wedged. I was so happy to just switch to AIX on all the PS/2s. One of my contracts was to port AIX to the i860 on a couple of add in cards (the IBM Wizard and then subsequently the W4). We actually started with the 370 version of the AIX kernel (closer than the i386 version). Still it was fun because were were running two UNIXes per box: one on the i860 and the other on the i386. The TCF (borrowed from the UCLA Locus system) made it all seamlessly move back and forth. We even had it boogeying with a 370 when we were working at IBM’s Palo Alto center.
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-29 15:17 [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs scj
2016-06-30 5:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-06-30 5:08 ` John Cowan
2016-06-30 11:18 ` arnold
2016-06-30 11:45 ` arnold
2016-06-30 13:22 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 14:05 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-06-30 14:33 ` William Cheswick
2016-06-30 14:43 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-06-30 14:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-30 15:07 ` Ori Idan
2016-06-30 23:07 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-01 3:27 ` Jesus Cea
2016-06-30 15:32 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 15:49 ` Larry McVoy
2016-06-30 16:32 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-04 5:08 ` [TUHS] OS for IBM PC (was: Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-06-30 17:07 ` [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs John Cowan
2016-06-30 17:57 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-06-30 18:31 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:21 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 19:51 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:55 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 20:04 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 18:26 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-06-30 19:21 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2016-06-30 19:43 ` Dan Cross
2016-06-30 19:53 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 19:47 ` Clem Cole
2016-06-30 20:57 ` Nemo
2016-06-30 23:11 ` Random832
2016-06-30 23:16 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-06-30 23:38 ` Random832
2016-07-01 0:38 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-01 1:21 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-07-01 1:34 ` John Cowan
2016-07-04 19:23 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-04 19:56 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-01 2:35 ` Nemo
2016-07-01 3:01 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-07-01 3:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2016-07-01 12:47 ` [TUHS] MS-DOS William Cheswick
2016-07-01 13:43 ` Marc Rochkind
2016-07-01 21:58 ` John Cowan
2016-07-01 22:27 ` Jacob Ritorto
2016-07-01 22:54 ` Jacob Goense
2016-07-01 23:44 ` John Cowan
2016-07-02 0:08 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 1:09 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-07-02 2:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-02 3:27 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2016-07-02 23:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-01 23:49 ` Dave Horsfall
2016-07-02 1:12 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 4:37 ` SZIGETI Szabolcs
2016-07-02 9:53 ` Brantley Coile
2016-07-01 13:47 ` Clem Cole
2016-07-01 15:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 15:25 ` Ronald Natalie [this message]
2016-07-02 15:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 19:46 ` Nemo
2016-07-03 1:18 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-03 13:33 ` Nemo
2016-07-01 17:39 ` John Cowan
2016-07-02 15:17 ` Ronald Natalie
2016-07-03 22:07 ` Derek Fawcus
2016-07-02 23:32 ` [TUHS] Algol68 vs. C at Bell Labs Peter Jeremy
2016-06-30 15:52 ` Joerg Schilling
2016-06-30 20:47 ` Lawrence Stewart
2016-07-02 0:12 [TUHS] MS-DOS Norman Wilson
2016-07-02 1:13 ` Steve Nickolas
2016-07-02 4:52 ` Random832
2016-07-03 19:40 ` scj
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