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"That thing was a disaster, so let's do the opposite of it" isn't more brain-dead than "let's superficially copy the familiar/trendy thing". (I say "superficial
by LukeShu 3y ago
"That thing was a disaster, so let's do the opposite of it" isn't more brain-dead than "let's superficially copy the familiar/trendy thing". (I say "superficially" with regard to TOPS-10→CP/M→DOS and Xerox→Windows copying; the VMS→NT copying is a much more in-depth influence and hiring of talent.)
- BirAdam 3y agoI agree, but also CP/M to DOS wasn’t superficial. When Paterson did the Z80 port of MS-DOS by running it through an assembly language translator he’d written for the task, the resulting MSX-DOS could run quite a bit of CP/M software without issue. The only major problem was MSX-DOS disk formats using Microsoft’s FAT filesystem. This isn’t unusual though since many CP/M machines had incompatible disk formats anyway.