ian (08/03/82)
JCP claims that CP/M-86 is `one of 3 OSes available, the best is MS-DOS however.'. Presumably he is referring to the 3 OSes as IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and UCSD. There is now a fourth alternative (at least). You can buy a full UNIX reimplementation called Coherent for $500 from Mark Williams, Chicago, 312-472-6659. That includes a C compiler, a full sort utility, and an incredible range of other utilities as well as editors, mail, nroff text formatter, assembler, debugger, etc, etc. A real bargain on UNIX systems! Compare the cost to MSDOS or UCSD or CPM with sort, compilers, etc, and you may agree. Ian Darwin U of Toronto Computing Services