2 ms·
DOS won because IBM PCs and PC compatibles won. Most of the popular earlier 8 bitters had a merged REPL that did both BASIC and 'operating system' interaction.
by pvg 3y ago
DOS won because IBM PCs and PC compatibles won. Most of the popular earlier 8 bitters had a merged REPL that did both BASIC and 'operating system' interaction. So, for instance, on an Apple ][, the default prompt put you in the BASIC REPL from which you could also run the Apple DOS (later ProDOS, neither related to MS DOS) commands.
- spiderxxxx 3y agoTrue. DOS wasn't better, it's just the first OS I've used, but CP/M works just fine and is easy to learn. Not that that's relevant to this machine, it has no real OS, just a basic system for managing the hardware.