Subj : Re: Today I learned
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : mary4
Date : Fri Jun 21 2024 10:19:32

 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
 pF> now I want to run a DR-DOS VM for old time's sake.
 pF> 
 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> 
 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
 pF> was a pretty cool setup.
 pF> 
 pF> Outside of Geoworks, it was all Borland Sidekick, Qedit and Telix.
 pF> 
 pF> 
 pF>  

i recently learned about DR-DOS's Open-DOS variant... i compleatly forgot about dr-dos until i found a disk image of it with the ne2000 setup software on it

i want to try open dos! :Di am using FreeDOS so fuckin much i want to experiment. other news i got an SB16 CT1740 sound card for this machine

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

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