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First project of this kind on here in a long while that isn't complete AI slop. Well done, really happy to see some people still doing this!
Yeah, I was a bit shocked to run across the "no AI generated code is in this code base yet", although the project doesn't have an anti-AI contribution policy. Makes it much more impressive.
I'm pretty sure CP/M 86 was already a thing. I believe there was even Concurrent CP/M 86, which let you run up to 4 (or more?) virtual sessions concurrently. Light years ahead of MS-DOS but nobody wanted it, so DRI dumbed it down and added MS-DOS compatibility and re-released as DR-DOS (still superior to MS-DOS though).
MS-DOS truly beat CP/M-86 when it extended the APIs and features in PC/MS-DOS 2.0 (heavily inspired by Xenix), like hierarchical file system. From then on, applications would target MS-DOS in addition to the curse of being too IBM PC specific
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MS-DOS truly beat CP/M-86 when it extended the APIs and features in PC/MS-DOS 2.0 (heavily inspired by Xenix), like hierarchical file system. From then on, applications would target MS-DOS in addition to the curse of being too IBM PC specific
For a while Microsoft was betting their future with Xenix, what an alternative reality that could have been.