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MS-DOS truly beat CP/M-86 when it extended the APIs and features in PC/MS-DOS 2.0 (heavily inspired by Xenix), like hierarchical file system. From then on, app

by p_l 2mo ago

MS-DOS truly beat CP/M-86 when it extended the APIs and features in PC/MS-DOS 2.0 (heavily inspired by Xenix), like hierarchical file system. From then on, applications would target MS-DOS in addition to the curse of being too IBM PC specific

pjmlp 2mo ago
For a while Microsoft was betting their future with Xenix, what an alternative reality that could have been.
- p_l 2mo ago
  I somewhat suspect that if not for multiple materials (not from MS) promoting deep dependency on IBM PC specifics, it might have worked out.