Timeline for Why did PC users need partitions in the 1980s
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| Mar 11 at 0:34 | audit | First answers | |||
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| Feb 26 at 19:42 | comment | added | poncho | "IBM PC was surprisingly welcoming of alternate operating systems right from the start"; actually, from day 1, they supported PC-DOS, CPM-86 (and USCD Pascal system)" - initially, it wasn't clear whether PC-DOS or CPM-86 would prevail... | |
| Feb 26 at 17:46 | comment | added | fooquency | Loving the casualness of that statement... "If you choose to write your own operating system". | |
| Feb 26 at 11:55 | comment | added | Neil | I think one place I worked at in 1989, had a copy of the technical reference. It was an A5 ring binder, with a purple hard cover. A remember a listing of the BIOS in one of the appendixes. | |
| Feb 26 at 3:33 | comment | added | Samveen | The quote from the IBM PC guide is just perfect. | |
| Feb 26 at 0:22 | comment | added | Evert | So many good answers, but I went with this one as it has a great source. | |
| Feb 26 at 0:20 | vote | accept | Evert | ||
| Feb 25 at 18:24 | history | edited | jpa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
note about IBM welcoming other operating systems
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| Feb 25 at 18:10 | history | answered | jpa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |