Subj : Today I learned
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Nightfox
Date : Sun Jun 16 2024 17:09:43

  Re: Today I learned
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sun Jun 16 2024 08:07 am

 PF> That the Digital Research that made DR-DOS was the same DRI that made
 PF> CP/M. I read an article describing the history of CP/M and DR-DOS, and now
 PF> I want to run a DR-DOS VM for old time's sake.

 PF> I was one of those outliers that didn't run Windows in the early 90s. I
 PF> didn't have a lot of horsepower at home - when I had a local bus 486/50
 PF> with 16 MB of RAM at work, I had a 386SX/16 with 3 mb of RAM at home.

 PF> I ran DR-DOS and SuperStor (my co-sysop worked for Addstor and got comp
 PF> copies of each) and GEOWorks Ensemble. With DR-DOS' task switcher, it was
 PF> a pretty cool setup.

My first PC was a hand-me-down 286-12 in 1992, and then I got it upgraded to a 386SX-16 in 1993.  At the time I didn't know of GeoWorks yet, and I mainly ran MS-DOS, and I did run Windows 3.1 sometimes (which I thought ran okay, but perhaps a bit slow).  I remember getting a copy of DR-DOS somewhere, but I never really gave it much of a try back then.

Nightfox
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