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   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 00:59:07 -0000 (UTC)   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
      
   > DEC was bigger in the minicomputer market. If DEC could have offered   
   > an open-standard machine, that could have offered serious competition   
   > to IBM. But what OS would they have used? They were still dominated   
   > by Unix-haters then.   
      
   DEC had plenty of experience in small-system single-user OSes by then;   
   their bigger challenge would've been picking one. (CP/M owes a lot to   
   the DEC lineage, although it dispenses with some of the more tedious   
   mainframe-isms - e.g. the RUN [program] [parameters] syntax vs. just   
   treating executable files on disk as commands in themselves.)   
      
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