Realtime Disk Operating System


Realtime Disk Operating System

(operating system)A Data General operating systemdeveloped in the 1970s or 1980s. When used in conjuction witha BASIC (e.g. Business Basic) it could support 16concurrent users at the record locking level and twoprinters all on 128K memory.

Reputedly IBM wanted to license this for the first IBM PCbut DG turned them down so they went to Microsoft instead.How different the world could have been.