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From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: IBM bashing / OSF / SVID / added pennies
Message-ID: <1260@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 20:34:59 GMT
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In article ... ultra!wayne@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Wayne Hathaway) writes:
> From MY experience, what IBM did was collect together a bunch of toy
> components and a toy operating system and beat the hell out of it
  ...so that it...
> wouldn't break or crash or corrupt data every few minutes.

Are we talking about the same piece of junk MS-DOS 1.0 that I remember?
About the only advantage was that the stupid error message was changed
from "BDOS ERROR ON C: SELECT" to "ABORT, RETRY, IGNORE". In either case
it meant "YOU JUST LOST YOUR DATA, SUCKER".

> As someone who was actually making a living on pre-IBM PCs under CP/M...

And we're talking about a different CP/M, too. I don't recall any serious
deficiencies in CP/M that weren't shared by the early PC-DOS...

There were some crummy CP/M boxes, yes, but there were good ones as well.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Ferranti International Controls Corporation, sugar!ficc!peter.
"You made a TIME MACHINE out of a VOLKSWAGEN BEETLE?"
"Well, I couldn't afford another deLorean."
"But how do you ever get it up to 88 miles per hour????"