eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (12/27/88)
In article <13280@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes: >MP/M was available for the Altos 586/986, which was most definitely NOT >S-100 based. I infer that other non-S-100 releases existed. ah! >Errr, CON-DOS XM is 286-only, isn't it? > XM runs on 8088 machines, i believe. slowly, but correctly. when it boots, it checks CPU type, and modifies its hard disk code appropriately... there's also a hook in XM which allows for better performance for some third party hard disk controllers. i can't recommend it highly enough -- Concurrent DOS was a lifesaver -- even on an XT or 80186 machine... i find MS-DOS to be "untenable". gack!