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		Neil44 on July 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CP/M is really open-source now To be fair I was thinking about the way MS-DOS solved problems that came along later like having lots more RAM and larger file systems. 640k, expanded memory, extended memory, file size limits. Things that I don't think CP/M was developed long enough to have to solve, so maybe it's not really fair to compare the two.

Ekaros on July 13, 2022 [–]

It would have probably ended up in similar mess with some different trade-offs and design decisions. Not in anyway certain it would have been better.

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