alt Hacker NewsI think it is pretty unreasonable to call CP/M "primitive beyond belief". It was basically equivalent to MS-DOS in capability -- after all, MS-DOS was basically an unlicensed clone of CP/M for the 8086.
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loloquwowndueo • yesterday at 3:09 PM
Ms-dos was primitive beyond belief. Barely more than a program loader.
andylynch • yesterday at 11:07 AM
It is said be way of comparison to modern platforms. Which seems pretty accurate.
whobre • yesterday at 1:40 PM
> after all, MS-DOS was basically an unlicensed clone of CP/M for the 8086.
Eh, not really. The file system was very different and these early operating systems were mostly a file system. The system calls were almost identical…
andrewstuart • yesterday at 10:51 AM
Yes. Primitive behind belief.
There was a time in the world when most PC users could drive the C prompt.
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> It was basically equivalent to MS-DOS in capability
MS-DOS 2.0 was a huge improvement, the first release didn't even support subdirectories or hard drives.