StarLink from 1984

🫧 Open on Bubbles In May 1984, Digital Research Inc (DRI) announced a product called StarLink 1 . It was described as a “hardware/software combination to expand the IBM PC into a multiuser system” 2 . The hardware portion was a board containing an Intel 8088 CPU, 64KB of RAM and four RS-232 interfaces for connecting dumb terminals . The software portion was DRI’s Concurrent DOS 3 running on the host PC. Such “multiuser system” could serve up to five users simultaneously - one working at the PC itself, and f