Re: [cobalt-users] apology... I think...

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Beynon wrote:

> micros to multi user minis covering unix varieties, Microsoft, cpm, mpm,
> pick, and lots of now long dead O/S.

I also did a lot with M/PM.  (Gary Kildahl was a friend for years) and
with the OSM Zeus, which ran it's own version of multi-user CP/M, one
Z-80 processor board per user, sharing the hard disk.  Kind of like
Blades today; what goes around comes around, I guess <smile>.

I was also VP of software development for the Lobo, which also had 128k
and ran either LDOS (making it a TRS-80 Model I work-alike) or CP/M or
CP/M Plus (Version 3).  According to Gary we had the best implmentation
of CP/M plus there ever was, but it had very little to do with me; it
was that the 12kk of memory could be broken up so well into pages and
all of them could be switched in and out of memory.  Most S-100 bus
computers were limited in that the first page could never be swapped
out; we didn't have that limitation.  Good hardware design <smile> which
I had nothing to do with.

> To be honest the Raq is probably one of the most interesting things I've
> gotten into for a while now, I've explored PCs to the point where they are
> just boring!

I agree.  I just downloaded Kylix.  It'll be interesting.

> 128Mb on a TRS80 - you must have upgraded the PSU a bit then!

Brain fart.  128k.  And 4mHz as well.  It was the OSM Zeus that ran at
8mHz, I think.

Jeff
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