[jhbadger]

I think it is pretty unreasonable to call CP/M "primitive beyond belief". It was basically equivalent to MS-DOS in capability -- after all, MS-DOS was basically an unlicensed clone of CP/M for the 8086.

[zozbot234]

> It was basically equivalent to MS-DOS in capability

MS-DOS 2.0 was a huge improvement, the first release didn't even support subdirectories or hard drives.

[andrewstuart]

Yes. Primitive behind belief.

There was a time in the world when most PC users could drive the C prompt.

[oncallthrow]

I suspect more computer users in total can use the terminal today than then

[andylynch]

It is said be way of comparison to modern platforms. Which seems pretty accurate.

[loloquwowndueo]

Ms-dos was primitive beyond belief. Barely more than a program loader.

[whobre]

> after all, MS-DOS was basically an unlicensed clone of CP/M for the 8086.

Eh, not really. The file system was very different and these early operating systems were mostly a file system. The system calls were almost identical…