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[–] glownig 1 point 0 points (+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

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[–] 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.

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[–] capnflummox 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Lolololololololololololololololololololol...

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[–] glownig ago  (edited ago)

Apple had 76% of entire sales market the week the IBM PC started to ship.

You seem uneducated. It's 100% True. Look up hardware market share percentage for that month/year. Total dollars income.