That's a good achievement but energy grids have varying degrees of robustness. So a number of days later the grid went down, Spain and Portugal blackouts were making global headlines. The cause - TLRD version it seems like a cascade shut down all the interconnected power networks. From [1]
The Guardian
The Portuguese prime minister, Luís Montenegro, said that the issue originated in Spain. Portugal’s REN said a “rare atmospheric phenomenon” had caused a severe imbalance in temperatures that led to the widespread shutdowns.
REN said: “Due to extreme temperature variations in the interior or Spain, there were anomalous oscillations in the very high voltage lines (400 kV), a phenomenon known as ‘induced atmospheric vibration’. These oscillations caused synchronisation failures between the electrical systems, leading to successive disturbances across the interconnected European network.”
MS-DOS user experience was extremely similar CP/M. In fact, one could safely say MS-DOS/PC-DOS only existed in the first place as a "quick and dirty" approximation of CP/M. (because IBM and Digital Research could not agree to licensing terms to bring CP/M to the IBM PC)
> one could safely say MS-DOS/PC-DOS only existed in the first place as a "quick and dirty" approximation of CP/M
One could indeed, especially seeing how the original name of the product Microsoft acquired and turned into MS-DOS 1.0 was QDOS, which stood for "Quick and Dirty Operating System" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS)
The story is weirder than not just agreeing to licensing terms. Gary Kildall (of Digital Research) and IBM have wildly conflicting versions of how their meeting went. To the point that I don't think the exact circumstances will ever be clear.
2.0 was also the "breakout" version of MS-DOS that made it win over CP/M.
It did it by introducing features inspired by another Microsoft OS, the Unix for 8080 known as Xenix:
- tree structured directories
- pipes
- output redirection
- DEV directory (mostly hidden as it didn't catch on, afaik)
Agreed. There will only ever be one SF. And Nashville has it's own character I hope it maintains as it grows. But I also hope they're not so anti-growth that they choke off development. At any rate, nimbyism seems to be less prominent in the South, in my experience, so I bet they'll embrace the growth.
