Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!ficc!peter 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 References: <16792@adm.ARPA> Organization: SCADA Lines: 22 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????"