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OSNews@osnews@mstdn.social (2026-08-18 18:59:23)
The road to MS-DOS 2

A great and concise history of the run-up to MS-DOS 2.0.

Yet, there was a nagging feeling that a single-tasking CP/M clone was inadequate for the new generation of personal computers. Digital Research released multi-user, multitasking MP/M-86 in September 1981 and announced the single‑user multitasking Concurrent CP/M in early 1982. In response, Microsoft came up with a plan for tiered a

https://www.osnews.com/story/145852/the-road-to-ms-dos-2/

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