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I have never heard of MPM. Thank you for the reference.
by LeFantome 2y ago
I have never heard of MPM. Thank you for the reference.
- nickdothutton 2y agoI ram MP/M 2 on an Altos and it was an excellent system. I think up to about half a dozen users sharing the system, surprisingly good performance for word processing tasks.
- lproven 2y agoMP/M led to Concurrent CP/M-86, which in turn led to three separate families of OSes: • Multiuser DOS (native 32-bit multiuser multitasking DOS-compatible). • DR-DOS (DR's comeback, a better DOS than MS-DOS, available at retail, which spurred MS into creating MS-DOS 5, then 6, then Windows 95). • DR FlexOS: realtime multitasking with a GUI, used widely in the embedded industry for ~40 years and still supported on some IBM point-of-sale terminals in the 4680 and 4690 range. I wrote about the extended family: https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/the_many_derivatives_of_cpm/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/the_many_derivatives_...
- Tor3 2y agoMP/M was fairly common in small office environments. I remember one particular accounting firm which had managed to delete all their files on the harddisk.. they had an MP/M system with, IIRC, eight terminals connected. I managed to restore all their files (not very difficult on CP/M or MP/M, as long as the drive is left in peace after the incident, which is what they did).