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> a command line interface that was basically CP/M but not as good. I hate to go to bat for MS-DOS, but it had at least one real advantage over CP/M: a single
by badc0ffee 1y ago
> a command line interface that was basically CP/M but not as good.
I hate to go to bat for MS-DOS, but it had at least one real advantage over CP/M: a single disk format. As doomed to failure as the various non-PC DOS machines (e.g. Tandy 2000 and DEC Rainbow) were, they could at least share disks.
- badc0ffee 1y agoI just remembered that the Rainbow only supported single sided disks. While a PC could format and use those, people normally used double sided disks. So, kind of technically compatible but not completely.