[OT] Some computing history?

[Mike Hicks <hick0088@tc.umn.edu>]

I found out several years too late that Digital Research's DR-DOS had
preemptive multitasking and other nice features like the ability to
handle protected-mode execution of programs.  How long did it have
that?  I even used DR-DOS for a while, and I didn't know it was able to
do that (jeez, I came from the world of MS-DOS, where everything sucked
;-p )  I read all this stuff about DR-DOS and CP/M and I just get more
and more annoyed..  Oh well, Microsoft apparently took the cost of CP/M
and divided by 10 when they decided to sell MS-DOS.  Just curious,
though I'm somewhat afraid to be `enlightened' on this topic..

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