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Section A:
General Introduction
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General Introduction
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A. 2. -_EOS and its Relatives
Why keep it secret:
EOS has been created with the facilities of another
operating
system
in mind - the CP/M system by Digital Research
Corp.,
California, USA.
Thete is some very good reason to do so. It is- the CP/M system which has
established a worldwide accepted standard for programs.
There are seve-
ral
thousand- programs available,
all of them being executable on every
computer with CP/M or a compatible operating system installed on it.
In some way, you may compare the standard to the standardized connection
of
a
turntable to your HiFi set.
You only have to imagine
that
this
"plug" has much more connectors.
Using
a
computer system with EOS installed on it makes
you
become
a
member
of a worldwide community of computer users,
their number
cur-
rently approaching the
1,~~0,~00
figure.
Day by day,
this number keeps
on
growing,
and so does the number of good application programs
which
can be run on all these computers.
EOS user's manual
Daeumling & Zimmermann
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