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When I got into CP/M in the 80s on my Amstrad 464, it felt like a "professional" operating system compared to those BASIC prompt ones.
by KingOfCoders 2y ago
When I got into CP/M in the 80s on my Amstrad 464, it felt like a "professional" operating system compared to those BASIC prompt ones.
- zabzonk 2y agoCP/M is a prompt one - doing something like DIR in CP/M is just like doing DIR in something in a directory listing in any other 8-bit platform.
- jhbadger 2y agoThat isn't how 8-bit computers (other than CP/M and MSX) generally worked -- instead they dropped you into a BASIC interpreter rather than a command-line shell. Some interpreters did let you list files and so on, but there wasn't a complete shell. What was of course very similar to the CP/M experience was MS-DOS (which was modeled after CP/M) and MSX (which was was modeled after MS-DOS itself)
- guenthert 2y agoThat didn't occur to me. Compared to the Amiga world this seemed even then very dated. I mean, it still had e.g. PUN, the paper tape punch device! Turbo Pascal however was great.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoYes for sure. But CP/M on Amstrad was some time before the Amiga was available, and it took some time until I met someone with an A1000 (around the time I got my A500 in ~87 I think - a friend had an Atari ST though before, did GEM have a shell?).