info-cpm (12/16/82)
>From alt@Utexas-11 Mon Dec 13 23:49:06 1982
To: LIN@Mit-Mc
Cc: info-cpm@BRL
Via: Utexas-11; 12 Dec 82 4:56-EST
Via: Brl; 12 Dec 82 5:11-EST
Via: Brl-Bmd; 12 Dec 82 5:21-EST
I have no experience with CPM-86, but I am working with MS-DOS right now.
I really dislike MS-DOS. The features it has are nice, but the
simple stuff really drives me crazy. For example: you are running
a program. you change disks. the next time ms-dos looks at the disk,
it says ``gee, the file allocation table needs to be updated since the
one I have here in core is different. UPDATE''. bash. I suppose
one could live with that, but all of the calls to MS-DOS are really
primitive compared to CPM-86 from what I have seen. If you have
a choice, go with CPM-86. My opinion of ms-dos: wicked, evil, bad,
nasty, get it away ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! The only reason I am
using it is I am beeing paid lots of money to write a silly program.
Good Luck,
Howard.
PS I'll never do it again.
-------info-cpm (12/17/82)
>From POURNE@Mit-Mc Tue Dec 14 22:09:01 1982
To: alt@Utexas-11
Cc: LIN@Mit-Mc, info-cpm@BRL
Via: Mit-Mc; 15 Dec 82 6:28-EST
Via: Brl; 15 Dec 82 7:58-EST
Via: Brl-Bmd; 15 Dec 82 8:17-EST
Mark Dahmke, who is pretty smart, says "Going from MSDOS to
CPM-86 is like going to CP/M from TRS-DOS." I am quoting him in
about the March column. JEPinfo-cpm (12/17/82)
>From goldfarb.ucf-cs@Udel-Relay Wed Dec 15 04:12:48 1982
To: Jerry E Pournelle <POURNE@Mit-Mc>, alt@Utexas-11
Cc: info-cpm@BRL, LIN@Mit-Mc
Via: UCF-CS; 16 Dec 82 2:48-EST
Via: Udel-Relay; 17 Dec 82 0:01-EST
Via: Brl; 17 Dec 82 0:22-EST
Via: Brl-Bmd; 17 Dec 82 0:26-EST
Is that good or bad, Jerry? I've never used either MSDOS or TRS-DOS.