Subject: MS-DOS is NOT RT-11 !

From: [email-masked] (Strong datatypes for weak minds.)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 03:12:36 GMT

RT-11 can be multitasking, multi-user (with TSX, COS-300, or MU-BASIC)
and can do real time.  DOS is none of those, and CP/M is certainly
quite a deevolution.  If you want to say the user interface drew its
inspiration from the prior okay, but the resemblance ends there !
Besides, RT-11 V5.6 kicks butt compared to MS-DOS (this is not your
father's RT-11) !

Regards,
rcs

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From: [email-masked]
Date: 13 Aug 93 09:48:51 MDT

> inspiration from the prior okay, but the resemblance ends there !

Since I haven't used the 1975-era RT-11 that CP/M allegedly (according to
Gary Kildall) drew, I can't say anything definitive about the resemblance
of CP/M to RT-11.

By the way, CP/M can be multitasking, multi-user, multithreaded (with MP/M),
and networked (with CP/NET)...

> Besides, RT-11 V5.6 kicks butt compared to MS-DOS (this is not your

For that matter, 4.0 (the first version of RT-11 that I used) kicks butt
compared to MS-DOS...

What's new in 5.6? My ins to the hardware guys (that could sneak me distribution
kits) ended with field test versions of 5.5. Of course, about 5.1 I was starting
to think that RT-11 was getting too big and complicated...

Roger "Don't get me wrong; device subsetting is a _great_ idea" Ivie
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