"Helped create" is accurate. S-100 and CP/M systems like those from Vector Graphic ruled the nascent PC industry in the 1970s before the rise of motherboard-based systems like the Apple II, and DOS started life as a CP/M clone, with largely compatible system call numbers. Even the Apple II ended up running CP/M as well via Microsoft's (!) Softcard.
Perhaps it's a bit like giving deserved credit to Al Gore for (among other things) the Supercomputer Network Study Act and the High Performance Computing and Communications act, as well as the "information superhighway" term.
I wonder if it would have been possible, as the article suggests, for more of the S-100 and CP/M companies to move to ISA and DOS (and x86) while keeping prices competitive with IBM and Apple?
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"Helped create" is accurate. S-100 and CP/M systems like those from Vector Graphic ruled the nascent PC industry in the 1970s before the rise of motherboard-based systems like the Apple II, and DOS started life as a CP/M clone, with largely compatible system call numbers. Even the Apple II ended up running CP/M as well via Microsoft's (!) Softcard.
Perhaps it's a bit like giving deserved credit to Al Gore for (among other things) the Supercomputer Network Study Act and the High Performance Computing and Communications act, as well as the "information superhighway" term.
I wonder if it would have been possible, as the article suggests, for more of the S-100 and CP/M companies to move to ISA and DOS (and x86) while keeping prices competitive with IBM and Apple?