The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded
86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.
@arstechnica Who knew computing archeology would be a thing?
@arstechnica I was a summer intern at IBM in NY in 1981. They showed us the new PC and I asked if it ran CP/M. :)
@arstechnica I thought it was QDOS.
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had one of these on my desk at work, yes, I am that old
Uh, there's plenty of CP/M capable computers older than that.
@arstechnica #Alt4You image description (you may be able to update your post to make it more accessible): old grey IBM desktop computer, keyboard, and (I think) printer?
@arstechnica 86-Dirty Operating System?
@arstechnica just beutyfull