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It was popular with govt because it came with an HDLC network build-in, server/client depended on the OS you booted. This saved you a network administrator.

The kernel was in Intel ASM86 but the rest of the OS was written in PLM86. When I joined it was 2MB of code on a 128K 8086 cpu. By the time I left it was 9MB of code running on an 80386.



Thanks Joe. Interesting knowledge. I managed to find a FAQ and was surprised that it made to the year 1999.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110708212436/http://www.ctosfa...




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