[Info-vax] OT: Computing Experience, What brought you to VMS?

[Roger Ivie]

On 2014-02-06, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> Rainbow was a IBM-PC sortof-compatible machine.

Rainbow was not compatible. It ran MS-DOS, but did not have the
ROM BIOS and hardware that software began to expect from a PC.

I gave up on the 'Bow when I bought Turbo C 1.5 and discovered
the *command line* version of the compiler could not run on the
'Bow because it was using IBM PC ROM BIOS functions to see whether
you punched ^C while it was compiling.

I also thought it was a pretty mediocre CP/M machine; it was
an ungodly mixture of 8088 and Z80 and didn't handle some Z80
stuff how I expected (IIRC, the IOBYTE didn't work). I much
preferred the DECmate II with Z80 APU for CP/M.
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roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net