Ramin Honary on Nostr: nprofile1q…qde2h I have heard that Digital Research’s actual CP/M was much better ...
nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxthsnnghl883w5wsjpknjk0jlapvejyepaqx3248ajwg697lc9qqgqde2h (nprofile…de2h) I have heard that Digital Research’s actual CP/M was much better in it’s structure. Of course MS-DOS was based on a CP/M clone “QDOS” so that might be why it had that very ad-hoc nature to installing software. You still had the option of paying extra for CP/M if that was important to you.
Even Mac OS at the time made more sense than DOS in my opinion. Some folder paths were always checked by the ROM, and the OS. Like the “System Folder : Extensions” was always checked for drivers, dragging and dropping was all that was necessary to install a driver. Driver configuration GUIs were always in “System Folder : Control Panels.” Copying the “System Folder” to a diskette or hard disk was all that was necessary to make that media bootable. There were no permissions like on a proper POSIX system, but at the time no one thought it was necessary, especially since network-connected computers were fairly rare outside of offices.
Even Mac OS at the time made more sense than DOS in my opinion. Some folder paths were always checked by the ROM, and the OS. Like the “System Folder : Extensions” was always checked for drivers, dragging and dropping was all that was necessary to install a driver. Driver configuration GUIs were always in “System Folder : Control Panels.” Copying the “System Folder” to a diskette or hard disk was all that was necessary to make that media bootable. There were no permissions like on a proper POSIX system, but at the time no one thought it was necessary, especially since network-connected computers were fairly rare outside of offices.