Bill Jonas on Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:20:16 +0100


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Re: [PLUG] Fwd: CG: Windows XP warning


On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 03:42:19PM -0500, Mike Leone wrote:
> Xenix was a little bit later, wasn't it?

I think that you had three OS choices on the original PC.  CP/M,
{MS,PC}-DOS, and some flavor of UNIX.  (I don't think it was XENIX.)
DOS was by far the cheapest...

(And there was the built-in BASIC interpreter, but that came with every
machine.)

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