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There weren't that many options at that time as I remember it. You had DOS (be it MS DOS or PC DOS, IBMs version) and then OS/2 came to the scene but by that time they also had MS Office which was the nail on the coffin.
Commodore was bankrupt, IBM was trying to unsuccessfully retake market share, Macs were only relevant in the US and Japan and was there anything else that was relevant?
I was a kid in the 90s but I never heard anyone working with anything that wasn't a Microsoft OS, for the end user I mean.
Apple had 76% of entire sales market the week the IBM PC started to ship.
76%!!! Apple was nearly the ENTIRE personal computer industry.
Also CP/M had multi-user multi-tasking operating system DRDOS (Concurrent CP/M-86) and Concurrent CP/M-86 for IBM PC, though cost 4 times more than MSDOS per copy, allowed async and networking. ASYNC programs even printing in background while running several other MS-DOS programs! ACTUAL parallel computing. I loved it. I never once in my life had to wait for computer to print anything.
Yeah, but the IBM PC 5150 and subsequent models dwarfed sells of all other computers by far. After that it was IBM PC compatible or bust and that's the context I'm referring to.
I remember DR-DOS being mentioned at that time but never knew anyone who used it. Shame, sounds like it was cool.
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[–] NarrativeControl 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There weren't that many options at that time as I remember it. You had DOS (be it MS DOS or PC DOS, IBMs version) and then OS/2 came to the scene but by that time they also had MS Office which was the nail on the coffin.
Commodore was bankrupt, IBM was trying to unsuccessfully retake market share, Macs were only relevant in the US and Japan and was there anything else that was relevant?
I was a kid in the 90s but I never heard anyone working with anything that wasn't a Microsoft OS, for the end user I mean.
[–] It_was_the_juice 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
He was very good at hustling.
[–] glownig 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Apple had 76% of entire sales market the week the IBM PC started to ship.
76%!!! Apple was nearly the ENTIRE personal computer industry.
Also CP/M had multi-user multi-tasking operating system DRDOS (Concurrent CP/M-86) and Concurrent CP/M-86 for IBM PC, though cost 4 times more than MSDOS per copy, allowed async and networking. ASYNC programs even printing in background while running several other MS-DOS programs! ACTUAL parallel computing. I loved it. I never once in my life had to wait for computer to print anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_PC_DOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
[–] NarrativeControl ago
Yeah, but the IBM PC 5150 and subsequent models dwarfed sells of all other computers by far. After that it was IBM PC compatible or bust and that's the context I'm referring to.
I remember DR-DOS being mentioned at that time but never knew anyone who used it. Shame, sounds like it was cool.
[–] capnflummox 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
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