Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: IBM's influence on OSF (Re: AT&T Joining OSF) Message-ID: <2250@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 14 Aug 88 18:10:54 GMT References: <384@halley.UUCP> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 16 From article <384@halley.UUCP>, by bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews): "... "By the way, before the IBM PC, it was typical for a system to trash the "contents of a diskette when it powered up. Also, the MTBF was *very* low. "Also, we had CP/M to enjoy. Whatever you may think about DOS, CP/M is "certainly much worse (like, swapping diskettes without remembering to warm boot "first and goodbye diskette contents). It may not have been *radical* change, What in the world are you talking about? My CPM system doesn't trash diskettes. I've used it regularly since I bought it in 1982,and I had my first problem this year -- with the disk drive door. For a given investment in resources, CPM is better. " but it was a big step forward in that it took personal computing out of the ^^^^^^^ -> backward Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu