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Hell no. (MS-)DOS was awful in every aspect, but CP/M was worse. It's quite amazing how age seems to make people paint the distant past rosy.

In 1980 CP/M would have been the obvious choice though for a micro computer, due to market dominance (there were penty of commercial software application available for CP/M, including, later, WordPerfect and Multiplan) and limitation of the hardware at that time. Glad that we moved on.



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