The Road to MS-DOS 2.0

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• walrus01 1 hour ago
  I know this is software focused, but as much of the work done in DOS 2.0 was to support the introduction of hard disks, it would be worth mentioning what the hardware was in the PC/XT:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-506/ST-412

  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=ST-212+ha...
• jmclnx 27 minutes ago
  >Even a scaled-down version of Unix was too demanding for the 8086 chip”.

  Interesting. At my old job I got my hands on Wang IN/ix around 1985, a 16 bit UNIX.

  It ran on an 8086 but needed 512k memory. It ran I wonder if memory was the main issue ? But seems the issue was probably memory.